11 Facts About Stuart Little

1.

Stuart Little is a 1945 American children's novel by E B White.

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2.

Stuart Little was illustrated by the subsequently award-winning artist Garth Williams, his first work for children.

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3.

Stuart Little had the dream in the spring of 1926, while sleeping on a train on his way back to New York from a visit to the Shenandoah Valley.

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4.

Boy named Stuart Little is born to an ordinary family in New York City.

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5.

Stuart Little is normal in every way except that he is only just over two inches tall and looks exactly like a mouse.

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6.

At first, the family is concerned with how Stuart Little will survive in a human-sized world, but by the age of seven, he speaks, thinks, and behaves on the level of a human of sixteen and shows surprising ingenuity in adapting, performing such helpful family tasks as fishing his mother's wedding ring from a sink drain.

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7.

The family's cat, Snowbell, dislikes Stuart Little because while he feels a natural instinct to chase him, he is aware that Stuart Little is a human family member and is thus off-limits.

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8.

Stuart Little decides to leave Ames Crossing and continue on his quest to find Margalo.

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9.

Stuart Little wrote letters to White, his wife Katharine, and Harper's children's editor Ursula Nordstrom, advising that the book not be published.

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10.

None of the three films include the plot of Stuart Little being a one-time substitute teacher in a schoolhouse.

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11.

In 2015, it was announced that a remake of a Stuart Little film is in the works at Sony Pictures Entertainment and Red Wagon Entertainment.

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