“The truth was that the child was in every way very much like a mouse,” says the book’s introduction. continues. “He was only about two inches tall, and he had a mousy pointy nose, a mousy tail, a mousy mustache, and a nice, shy mousy manner.”
novel noted that when Stewart was “many days old,“he looked like a mouse and behaved the same way, even “Wearing a gray hat and a small cane.”
Stuart grew up quickly, and the book explains: “When he was a week old, he could climb lamps by following the cord. Mrs. Little immediately realized that the baby clothes she had provided her were unsuitable, and she set to work and made him a lovely little blue worsted suit with patch pockets in which he could keep his handkerchief, money and keys.”
It's interesting that readers Stuart Little were surprised by him birth story since the book was published. Famous writer and librarian Ann Carroll Moore reacted very strongly when White's editor sent her the original manuscript.as described in Melissa Sweet's Some writer!White's 2016 biography.
“No book in my life has ever disappointed me so much.” she said, indicating the biography: “She wrote an urgent fourteen page letter to the Whites explaining why Stuart Littlewith its “monstrous birth”, should not be published.”
