![]() Juvenile Fiction / Social Themes / Death, Grief, Bereavement.“Beautiful and descriptive language is the strength of Babbitt's fantasy about Winnie and her encounter with the Tuck family, who cause her-and readers-to ponder an important question: What would it be like to live forever?” - Booklist “This book is as shapely, crisp, sweet, and tangy as a summer-ripe pear.” - Entertainment Weekly It lingers on, haunting your waking hours, making you ponder.” - The Boston Globe “Natalie Babbitt's great skill is spinning fantasy with the lilt and sense of timeless wisdom of the old fairy tales. When ten-year-old Winnie Foster stumbles on their secret, the Tucks take her home and explain why living forever at one age is less a blessing that it might. “Probably the best work of our best children's novelist.” - Harper's Doomed to - or blessed with - eternal life after drinking from a magic spring, the Tuck family wanders about trying to live as inconspicuously and comfortably as they can. journey.Praise for Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt:A fearsome and. growing older.But then Winnie must decide whether or not to keep the Tuck s’ secretand whether or not to join them on their neverending. Underlying the drama is the dilemma of the age-old desire for perpetual youth.” - The Horn Book Magazine Members of the Tuck family, having drunk from the spring, tell Winnie of their experiences watching life go by and never. The author manipulates her plot deftly, dealing with six main characters brought together because of a spring whose waters can bestow everlasting life. Flawless in both style and structure, it is rich in imagery and punctuated with light fillips of humor. “Rarely does one find a book with such prose. ![]() “With its serious intentions and light touch the story is, like the Tucks, timeless.” - Chicago Sun-Times “Exciting and excellently written.” - The New York Times Book Review “A fearsome and beautifully written book that can't be put down or forgotten.” - The New York Times Born and raised in Ohio, Natalie Babbitt lived her adult life in the Northeast. In 2002, Tuck Everlasting was adapted into a major motion picture, and in 2016 a musical version premiered on Broadway. She also illustrated the five volumes in the Small Poems series by Valerie Worth. In 2002, Tuck Everlasting was adapted into a major motion picture, and in 2016 a musical version premiered on Broadway. Kneeknock Rise earned Babbitt a Newbery Honor in 1971, and she went on to write-and often illustrate-many more picture books, story collections, and novels. Gaynorfd: Both books will make you think. Her first novel, The Search for Delicious, was published in 1969 and established her reputation for creating magical tales with profound meaning. Zoe: Another childrens book that manages both to entertain and to make you think. She soon tried her own hand at writing, publishing two picture books in verse. As the mother of three small children, she began her career in 1966 by illustrating The Forty-Ninth Magician, written by her husband, Samuel Babbitt. Artist and writer Natalie Babbitt (1932–2016) is the award-winning author of the modern classic Tuck Everlasting and many other brilliantly original books for young people.
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