Publisher's Weekly Review
E.B. White's enduring classic celebrates in style with the release of the Charlotte's Web 5oth Anniversary Retrospective Edition. The handsome volume sports a clothbound cover framing original jacket art; inside, Rosemary Wells adds country color to Garth Williams's original b&w illustrations. An afterword by Peter F. Neumeyer illuminates White's life and work, including photographs of the author on his farm in Maine as well as pages from the seminal manuscript. (May) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Horn Book Review
Geared to gift-buyers, this 50th Anniversary Retrospective Edition is an oversize book featuring large print. Bigger is not necessarily better, and Rosemary Wells's colorization of Garth Williams's artwork adds little to the book. Appended is an informative afterword by Peter F. Neumeyer. From HORN BOOK Spring 2003, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.