All of E.B. White’s books evoke the spirit of summer—especially an old-fashioned childhood summer. Fern sits amongst the animals in the barn, flies through the air on Uncle Homer’s swing, and travels to the fair in Charlotte’s Web. Stuart wins the sailboat race in Central Park and drives north in his car on a hot day, stopping for a cold sarsaparilla in Stuart Little. Louis the Swan works as a junior counselor at a boys’ summer camp in The Trumpet of the Swan. All three of these novels reflect White’s attention to the animal life in his own farmyard in Maine where he spent his later years.