The film definitely has a mid-century feel to it. The first Stuart Little book, written by E. B. White (author of Charlotte's Web), was published in 1945. The original idea was in 1926, involving a two-inch-tall boy who happened to resemble a mouse. Several more stories followed, all of which were shared only with his nieces and nephews. In the late 1930s and early 1940s the stories had been read by various magazine editors as well as the head librarian at the New York Public Library and even James Thurber, followed by an offer to publish them in Harper's Magazine. Rather than publishing them as separate stories, White spent several years turning them into a book, finally completing the book in late 1944. As it was more about a series of amusing scenarios rather than a continuous story, it received a lukewarm reception at first but eventually became recognized as a classic among children's literature and in 1970 jointly won the Laura Ingalls Wilder medal. Although White only wrote the one book, other Stuart Little books were written by other authors.
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