title:Tuck Everlasting Spring of youth
Difficulty:LexileLance reading index770L
Author:Natalie Babbitt
Name of publishing house:Square Fish
Published:2007
Language: English
ISBN:9780312369811
Product size:13.6 x 1.1 x 19.9 cm
Packing: paperback
Number of pages:160(subject to material object)
★ Macmillan century award novel;
★ one of the 100 childrens books recommended by the American Association of education and the award-winning work of the American Library Association Childrens Book Award;
★ there is no fountain of youth in the world, but a beautiful childhood and cherishing childhood are the fountain of youth in human life
Edited by Natalie BabbittTuck EverlastingSpring of youthIt tells the story of a precocious little girl Winnie who is dreamily bewitched by magic. Winnie yearned for a life beyond her mothers control. When she got lost in the forest not far from home, she ran into Tucker, a boy who felt completely different from the boy she had met before, and found the Tucker familys secret of eternal life. With Winnies being tracked, kidnapped and arrested, the story began to get complicated
This book has been remade into a film of the same name twice, and has been loved and recognized by the audience.
Media review:
"A thriller and beautiful novel cant be put down or forgotten."——New York Times
"Touch the serious theme lightly, and make this story as eternal as the Tucker family who has drunk the magic spring." - "- Chicago Sun
Review
“Rarely does one find a book with such prose. Flawless in both style and structure, it is rich in imagery and punctuated with light fillips of humor.”―The Horn Book Magazine
“Beautiful and descriptive language is the strength of Babbitts 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
“Probably the best work of our best childrens novelist.”―Harpers
“A fearsome and beautifully written book that cant be put down or forgotten.”― The New Yorker
“Exciting and excellently written.”―The New York Times Book Review
“Natalie Babbitts great skill is spinning fantasy with the lilt and sense of timeless wisdom of the old fairy tales. . . . It lingers on, haunting your waking hours, making you ponder.”―The Boston Globe
“With its serious intentions and light touch the story is, like the Tucks, timeless.”―Chicago Sun-Times
“This book is as shapely, crisp, sweet, and tangy as a summer-ripe pear.”―Entertainment Weekly
Although Winnie is not yet eleven years old, she doesnt believe in elves and fairy tales. How can she believe the story of the tuckers? Tucker, may, Jesse, miles, because they drank a spring in the forest, time has stagnated since then, that is, they are immortal.
But this is the truth. The spring water is under a white wax tree in Winnies forest; But except Jesse, the tuckers tried to stop Winnie from drinking it. The melancholy and sad Tucker told her: if people only live but not die, they are no different from the stones on the roadside, and they cant really live. Jesse, who is only seventeen forever, earnestly hopes that Winnie will drink the spring water in a few years, and then go to him
Winnie kept silent. The greed and insidiousness of the mysterious yellow man made her understand that once more people knew the secret of the spring, the world would be destroyed. Of course, Winnie knows that she can drink at any time or until she dies. How will she choose?
The classic novel about a young girl who stumbles upon a familys 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. Members of the Tuck family, having drunk from the spring, tell Winnie of their experiences watching life go by and never growing older.
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.
Natalie Babbitt,Childrens literature writer and illustrator. Born in Ohio, USA. I like reading fairy tales and myths since childhood, and I love painting under the influence of my mother. He studied art at Smith University. After marriage, she drew illustrations for her husbands childrens book the 49th magician. Encouraged by the editor, she began to write her own paintings and try to write novels for 40 years.
The fountain of youth, published in 1975, made her highly praised. The New York Times commented that she was "undoubtedly a gifted and ambitious writer of childrens Literature". This classic novel won numerous awards and was adapted into a film twice in 1981 and 2002.
In 1971, the novel "the exploration of Mount nyanauk" won the Newbury Silver Prize for childrens literature.
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. 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. She soon tried her own hand at writing, publishing two picture books in verse. Her first novel, TheSearch for Delicious, was published in 1969 and established her reputation for creating magical tales with profound meaning. 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. 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. Born and raised in Ohio, Natalie Babbitt lived her adult life in the Northeast.
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