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Eleanor & Alasdair

Often mistaken for a precocious niece and wizened uncle, Eleanor Morton and Alasdair Beckett-King are two unrelated comedians with similar hair.

Both are eager to pass judgement on the most popular children's writers of the last two centuries. What are they going to do about it, come back to life?

Eleanor is the author of Life Lessons From Historical Women (Hatchette), and ABK writes the Montgomery Bonbon Mysteries (Walker Books / Candlewick).

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Just like women be shopping, E. B. White. And White's 1952 novel Charlotte's Web is a blackly comical tear-jerker about a spider coming to the aid of a pig who doesn't want to be eaten. Are Eleanor and Alasdair fans of spiders? Or are we absolutely terrified of them?

Well, what do you think? Based on everything you know about us, do you think we like spiders?

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Well, what do you think? Based on everything you know about us, do you think we like spiders?