One of his ten favorite rodents in children's fiction, as shared at the Guardian:Stuart Little by EB WhiteRead about the other entries on the list.
If you’re going to do talking mice in clothes, why not go the whole hog and have one with human parents? Such is the charm of EB White’s 1945 classic that the sheer strangeness of the concept soon becomes irrelevant. The rest of the human cast take a humanised rodent in their stride as well, and Stuart Little gets to drive a car (a small one, obviously) and even has a diminutive human girlfriend. Sounds ridiculous, is ridiculous – but it’s funny, heart-warming and exciting all the same.
Also see: Kate DiCamillo's ten best rodents she has known and loved in children's books and John Mullan's list of ten of the best rats in literature.
--Marshal Zeringue
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