At last, a Final Jeopardy I knew!

In the category of Children’s Literature, last evening’s final Jeopardy answer was:

Joy, Nellie, and Aranea are three of the many children of this title character.

I knew this one almost immediately. Here is a recording of the author reading the last chapter of the book.

We watched the 1973 animated version of this book, which featured the voices of Debbie Reynolds as Charlotte and Henry Gibson as Wilbur, many times when our daughters were young. In the acknowledgements included in my PhD dissertation, I paraphrased the closing line of the book

She was in a class by herself. It is not often someone comes along who’s a true friend and a good writer. Charlotte was both.

and wrote of my PhD advisor

He was in a class by himself. It is not often someone comes along who’s a true friend and a great statistician. Randy was both.

At the risk of embarrassing him, Randy has been a true friend and a great statistician for almost 30 years.

Love,

Rebecca