Many animal-themed books are enduring classics in literary education. However, in the teaching of these works, the animal concerns at the surface of the text are subdued in favour of a supposedly more important human subtext that lies beneath the narrative surface. In this chapter, I concentrate on E.B. White’s Charlotte’s Web and unpack the barriers to and possibilities for fostering interspecies empathy among younger children and posit a re-imagining of the text that reflects White’s original animal and ecological ethic, one better suited to education in the Anthropocene.