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The Ferris Wheel  “The most fun there is,” retorted Fern, “is when the Ferris wheel stops….”14  Fern loves being stopped at the top of the

“With New Radiant Action.”6  After racing around, jumping into the air, touching the ground with his ears, and doing a backflip with a half twist,

When he heard that the price was only six dollars, he said he would buy the pig.4  Mr. Zuckerman thinks he can make money on

. . . Mr. Zuckerman would keep him as long as he lived.24  Wilbur is a well-cared-for pig. He basks in Fern’s protective babying and

The crickets sang . . . the song of summer’s ending.26  The dawning of autumn and the year’s maturing elicit in us deep emotions and

If you have the poetic temperament, you go on groping toward something which will express all this . . . and our own inarticulateness only

“A special award will be made . . . Everyone is invited.”20  It’s the last day of the fair, and the judges are making their

Wilbur fainted away.1  As the crickets lament the passing of summer, melancholy settles over the farm. Mrs. Zuckerman, the crickets, Wilbur, and the maple tree