Talk:Stuart Little

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Re: the following excerpt:

some have claimed that the films' most remarkable special effect is British actor Hugh Laurie's convincing American accent.

This is objectionable for two reasons.

First, it is weaselly.

Second, I can't agree that there is anything at all remarkable about British (or Irish, Australian, South African etc.) actors being able to do convincing American accents. Consider very briefly Kenneth Branagh in Dead Again, Russell Crowe and Guy Pearce in L.A. Confidential, Cate Blanchett in Bandits, Liam Neeson in Darkman, Daniel Day-Lewis in Gangs of New York, Judy Davis in The Ref, Charlize Theron in The Devil's Advocate (this was before she decided to just talk in an American accent all the time) and Nicole Kidman in a couple of dozen movies.

So I am removing it.

As well you should, as this article is about the book, not the film.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 05:48, 3 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Link to the article for the film.[edit]

Stuart Little (film) --2mcm^Gespräch 05:02, 14 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Question[edit]

when stuart got adopt by the little's? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 169.203.144.2 (talk) 19:44, 28 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Read the book, you'll find out. I hear it may be coming out soon.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 05:48, 3 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Stuart wasn't adopted and there was no orphanage. He was born to humans and, in the words of the doctor, "it was very unusual for an American family to have a mouse." I need to read the editing faqs before I change anything, though - anyone who's read the book want to fix it? Bibliomom (talk) 02:39, 20 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Source of the name Margalo?[edit]

I've long wondered where Stuart's friend Margalo got her unusual name. Finally got around to googling and up popped Margalo Gillmore (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margalo_Gillmore), a New-York-based actor who was a contemporary of White's and a member of the Algonquin Round Table. It seems likely that White and Gillmore were acquainted. Anybody know how he came to use the name Margalo? Bthoenen (talk) 01:58, 4 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Reception[edit]

In the December 6, 2021 New Yorker an article by Jill Lepore (The Lessons of “The Lorax”) has the aside: "Like the long-ago banning of E. B. White’s “Stuart Little,” by the New York Public Library". Can anybody expand this? Sparafucil (talk) 22:42, 28 November 2021 (UTC) Ah, I see it's covered in the 21 July 2008 Issue The Lion and the Mouse Sparafucil (talk) 22:54, 28 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Character article categories don't belong[edit]

These categories are for character articles, not book articles:

Category:Fictional mice and rats

Category:Literary characters introduced in 1945

This category is appropriate as it is a book related category

Category:Children's novels about mice and rats

Geraldo Perez (talk) 04:35, 11 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]