'This book is as shapely, crisp, sweet, and tangy as a summer-ripe pear. 'This book is as shapely, crisp, sweet, and tangy as a summer-ripe pear.' -Entertainment Weekly

She began her career in 1966 with the publication of a picture book, The Forty-Ninth Magician, a collaboration with her husband, Samuel Fisher Babbitt. It lingers on, haunting your waking hours, making you ponder.' -The Boston Globe A gifted artist and writer, Natalie Babbitt's novels are inspired by a brilliance and imagination that is completely original. 'Natalie Babbitt's great skill is spinning fantasy with the lilt and sense of timeless wisdom of the old fairy tales. 'Probably the best work of our best children's novelist.' -Harper's 'With its serious intentions and light touch the story is, like the Tucks, timeless.' -Chicago Sun-Times Her novels included Goody Hall, The Devils Storybook, Tuck Everlasting, The Eyes of the Amaryllis, Herbert Rowbarge, and The Moon Over High Street. 'Exciting and excellently written.' -The New York Times Book Review Praise for Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt: 'A fearsome and beautifully written book that can't be put down or forgotten.' -The New York Times But then Winnie must decide whether or not to keep the Tucks' secret-and whether or not to join them on their never-ending journey. Members of the Tuck family, having drunk from the spring, tell Winnie of their experiences watching life go by and never growing older.

The classic novel about a young girl who stumbles upon a family's stunning secret What if you could live forever? Is eternal life a blessing or a curse? That is what young Winnie Foster must decide when she discovers a spring on her family's property whose waters grant immortality.

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