“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. 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. 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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