A puffin book - stories that last a lifetime. Puffin modern classics are relaunched under a new logo: a puffin book. There are 20 titles to collect in the series, listed below, all with exciting new covers and fun-filled endnotes. This is the story of a little girl named fern who loved a little pig named wilbur and of wilbur's dear friend, charlotte a. Cavatica, a beautiful large gray spider. With the unlikely help of templeton the rat, and a wonderfully clever plan of her own, charlotte saves the life of wilbur, who by this time has grown up to be quite a pig. A time-honored classic favorite. EB White was born in new york in 1899 and died in 1985. He kept animals on his farm in maine and some of these creatures crept into his books, such as stuart little which was made into a blockbusting film in 2000.