The houses themselves are not exact matches to ones we’d find there today, but they command the same scale and general aesthetic. The tower would not come into perspective from this particular view of the park, but perhaps the artist was inspired to substitute the graceful ornamentation of the Metropolitan Life Tower for another less beautiful building. In the illustration (on page 74, if you have the book handy), Williams has sketched in a tall building with a spire that closely resembles the real-life Met Life Tower building. The ivy-covered houses could fit in several New York neighborhoods, but the gate to the park looks just like the one around Gramercy Park's famously private space. One illustration in particular shows a streetscape with individual townhouses on the left and a park to the right. 11th Street in Greenwich Village, describes the location of Stuart's house, as follows: 'The home of the Little family was a pleasant place near a park in New York City.' While this imprecise location could be fulfilled by many different neighborhoods with parks, the charming adept illustrations by Garth Williams (also the illustrator for White's Charlotte's Web) suggest Gramercy Park (see related feature). White, who finished writing the book while living on W. Concerned with his potential identity problems, his sensitive parents shield him from widespread derogatory references to mice, going so far as to change one word of a line of Clement Clark Moore's Christmas poem (another made-in-New York classic) to read ' Not a creature was stirring, not even a louse.' (E. The largest problem is that he's so small that his family could lose him, but another issue arises with the presence of Mrs. In modern parlance we might describe Stuart as 'a special needs child.' He requires necessary adjustments in his domestic arrangement so he can climb up to the bathroom sink to brush his teeth. He looks like a mouse, can walk within weeks after he's born, and he never gets taller than a fraction over two inches. Urn:oclc:610975418 Republisher_date 20120725174305 Republisher_operator Scandate 20120725071204 Scanner starters, in White's book, unlike in the movie where the Littles find him in an orphanage, Stuart is the Little's biological child (!), albeit an unusual one.

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