He put the sac in an empty candy box, punched some holes in it, and absent-mindedly put the box atop his bedroom bureau in New York. White never saw the spider again and, so, when he had to return later that fall to New York City to his job as a regular contributor to The New Yorker magazine, White took out a razor blade and cut the silken egg sac out of the web. Weeks passed until one cold October evening when he noticed that the spider was spinning what turned out to be an egg sac. That in itself was nothing new, but this web, with its elaborate loops and whorls that glistened with early morning dew, caught his attention. White walked into the barn of his farm in Maine and saw a spider web. Now, a new book called The Story of Charlotte's Web explores how White's masterpiece came to be. In a poll of librarians, teachers, publishers and authors, the trade magazine Publisher's Weekly asked for a list of the best children's books ever published in the United States. White's Eccentric Life in Nature and the Birth of an American Classic
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