![]() ![]() “This book is as shapely, crisp, sweet, and tangy as a summer-ripe pear. “With its serious intentions and light touch the story is, like the Tucks, timeless.” - Chicago Sun-Times 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. “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 Yorker “Probably the best work of our best children's novelist.” - Harper's “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 Flawless in both style and structure, it is rich in imagery and punctuated with light fillips of humor.” - The Horn Book Magazine “Rarely does one find a book with such prose. ![]() Born and raised in Ohio, Natalie Babbitt lived her adult life in the Northeast. Naive as he may be, he believes that it will all go alright and asks her to wait for him. In comparison to his older brother, Miles, he has never known love until he meets Winnie Foster. He lives his life happily and freely, without fear. Jesse will be an everlasting 17-year-old. In 2002, Tuck Everlasting was adapted into a major motion picture, and in 2016 a musical version premiered on Broadway. Jesse Tuck is the ageless love interest of Winnie Foster in Tuck Everlasting. She also illustrated the five volumes in the Small Poems series by Valerie Worth. 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. Her first novel, The Search for Delicious, was published in 1969 and established her reputation for creating magical tales with profound meaning. 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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