Stuart Little - Chapters 9 to the end - Heading North - May 23, 2011

We finish discussing E.B. White's Stuart Little - and by now the students have guessed why I teach this book as our final text.  We discuss each of the chapters - Stuart's escape from garbage scow, his leaving home, his turn as a substitute teacher - Harriet Ames and the ruined canoe trip and the ending.  It is the ending that I find so wonderful - the idea of Stuart always heading North - always searching for Margalo.  Finally, I tie the book into all of the other novels that we have read this year.