The making of Stuart Little

     Before E.B White moved to his farm in Maine he had lived in New York, and loved it there.  Once he moved to Maine, he began to have a love of animals.  He decided to write a book that took place in New York and was about an animal, but which one, there were so many to choose from.  One day while sleeping on a railroad car, he dreamt about a little boy that acted more like a mouse than he did like a boy.  And that was where he got his inspiration to write Stuart Little from.
     E.B White tended to keep the same themes in almost all of his childrens books, and liked to add adult humor and things that were depper than they seemed.  He wanted children to see that life was not always happy and bright, and that things that live will always die, no matter what.  Those were things that younger children didn't understand, but older children and adults would understand.  White had a way of writing sad depressing things but since he wrote it about animals it was easier for him to mellow it all out (balance it out).  
     The themes that White loved to include were those about bravery, tolerance, rural living, and especially loyalty.  Those were all themes that can be found in almost all of his children books, and maybe even some in his adult poems and essays.  Those themes may be the things that he found most important in life, and he probably wanted to portray that to others.