Elijah, Zeke and I have been enjoying E.B. White’s classic novels as of late. Before Christmas we read Charlotte’s Web together, which they declared was a “girl’s book”, (yet reading a chapter before bed became absolutely mandatory, and “Awwwws!” were heard when I closed the book at the end of the chapter each night) and now we’re reading Stuart Little.
For some reason they found the quote below very entertaining, and they laughed and talked about it for a while. I liked it too. It is in the chapter titled “The Schoolroom,” when Stuart agrees to teach school for a day. He has a discussion with his students about the things in life that are really important. Here is the answer that Henry Rackmeyer comes up with:
“A shaft of sunlight at the end of a dark afternoon, a note in music, and the way the back of a baby’s neck smells if its mother keeps it tidy.”
