In case you’ve been in a hole for the last fifty years, this is E.B.
White’s classic story of Charlotte the grey spider and how she saved a
pig named Wilbur from being turned into bacon. I read it several times when
I was a kid, and loved it. I read it to Dave over the last twenty or so
nights, and he loved it too. I’m going to have to look for
Stuart Little, which I somehow never got to, and
The Trumpet of the Swan, which I may have read more times as a
kid than Charlotte’s Web.

There are several editions of this book in print; the one I got has the
same illustrations I remember, except that these have been “colorized”.
The result is surprisingly attractive, and if I were going to give
somebody a copy of this book I’d definitely look for the “Full Color
Edition”.