Stuart Little

Small Stuart - The story of an unusual family (AKA: Stuart Little) is a 1945 children's book published by the U.S. author Elwyn Brooks White. The illustrations were made Garth Williams.

The first German -language transfer is from Heinrich hedge and was published in 1950 under the title Rikki. The adventurous story of a little mouse in Babicky, Vienna and Heidelberg. The Diogenes Verlag, Zurich, 1978 brought out a new translation of Ute Haffmans, which has since been used.

Action

The Little family are looking forward to her second child, but Mrs. Little brings a mouse to the world that is named Stuart Klein. His older brother George disturbs his mouse shape in any way. Small Stuart himself sees his small stature to be a blessing when it comes to perform minor repairs on the piano or even to climb into the drain.

But the domestic cat Snowball sees free food and starts Stuart attempts to get rid of him. Stuart amazed the people, as he participates in a small sailboat in a regatta in pond of Central Park.

One day he learns the little bird lady Margalo know and the two are very good friends. Margalo even saves his life, as a small Stuart gets into a garbage truck.

In the spring comes a difficult transition: cat Snowball is planning a street cat a plot against Margalo, but a dove overhears and leaves Margalo a warning letter. Without taking leave Margalo flees from the house of the Littles.

Stuart can not believe that his girlfriend is gone and decides to leave the safe house, to look for her. He gets in his toy car and makes a great trip, where he gets a chance to be a substitute teacher in a school. He meets the girl Harietta Ames know, that's just as big as him.

Filming

The book was made ​​into a film under the title of Stuart Little with Hugh Laurie as Mr. Little, Geena Davis as Mrs. Little and Jonathan Lipnicki as George Little. The animated Stuart Little was said in the original by Michael J. Fox. The film received two sequels and was followed by an eponymous cartoon series.

  • Literary work
  • Literature ( 20th century)
  • Literature ( English )
  • Children 's and Youth Literature
  • Elwyn Brooks White
  • Literature (United States)
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