Tuck Everlasting

Author - Natalie Babbitt ... [Goo?] [Posters]

This Paperback Book item from Square Fish was reviewed on 10-Oct-2008.

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1) Paperback Book Tuck Everlasting by Square Fish. This well-known (and surpisingly lacking of contemporary awards) young adult book is about a little girl and a fountain of eternal life (as we know life, that is). Key players here also include a family of ageless centurions under the fountain´s power, a mysterious stranger who would exploit that power, and a cast of hapless citizens in the background who don´t realize that they live among the most potent force in their little reality.
I read this aloud to my kids. They were pulled into the story and quite curious about where this would all lead, but I had the distinct sense that there was an attempted charm in this book that the author never fully achieved. The Tucks (the ageless family) are presented as all-powerful-innocents; immortals who (almost all of them) deeply regret their immortality, and whose regret is soothed by an unexplained love for the little girl who they (almost all of them) want desperately to protect from their own endless fate. I got the intent, but the presentation of this situation didn´t "move" me like I hoped it would.
All in all, it´s a good book but it wouldn´t make my top 100 list, although the reviews of my peers are overwhelmingly more worshipful. I did enjoy pondering and discussing the many questions that the book raises, and of course the matters of life and death drip from every page; indeed, by the end of the book, every living thing that we´re introduced to is either dead (by one means or another) or plodding through its own eternal changelessness. As a father, it was interesting to see my kids split in their own reactions to the question: would you rather age, change, and die as all things are meant to do, or would you rather live on forever, unchanged and unchangeable? Well?¤

2) Paperback Book Tuck Everlasting by Square Fish. A magic spring can cause a lot of trouble. When 10-year-old Winnie Foster finds out that the Tucks have everlasting life they have to take her home and convince her that living forever might not be as good as it sounds. When trouble arises, it´s Winnie´s choice to save the Tuck´s, and the spring, from people who care only about themselves. Who would have guessed that a 10-year-old girl would have the choice to change the world...forever?¤

3) Paperback Book Tuck Everlasting by Square Fish. MrLeonard, a reviewer wrote an excellent review of this book. This is a very disturbing book with themes that are utterly unsuitable for children.¤

4) Paperback Book Tuck Everlasting by Square Fish. During the summer since I had to read 2 books for homework, and I thought I´d try it. But even after 8 chapters I still didn´t get it! I felt like going to sleep! I´d rather do a million math problem than read THAT!¤

5) Paperback Book Tuck Everlasting by Square Fish. One hot summer day in August, 10-year-old Winnie Foster sits on the front porch and thinks about running away. She goes into the woods, but she finds a boy named Jesse Tuck sitting underneath the biggest tree in the wood. After that, she finds herself on one of the greatest adventures ever. She meets the rest of the Tucks, who have had a twist of fate and ended up permanently immortal. Winnie learns lots of things about the value of life from the Tucks, and I was very satisfied with how the book ended.

Natalie Babbit has a magical way of turning a poetic novel into something that a sixth grader can enjoy again and again. I loved Tuck Everlasing, so maybe I will read some more of Natalie Babbit´s work, such as Kneeknock Rise. If you enjoyed Tuck Everlasting as much as I did, maybe you should, too!

~Brooke G. 6th Grader at PWS Middle School~¤

6) Paperback Book Tuck Everlasting by Square Fish.

7) Paperback Book Tuck Everlasting by Square Fish. Imagine coming upon a fountain of youth in a forest. To live forever--isn´t that everyone´s ideal? For the Tuck family, eternal life is a reality, but their reaction to their fate is surprising. Award winner Natalie Babbitt (Knee-Knock Rise, The Search for Delicious) outdoes herself in this sensitive, moving adventure in which 10-year-old Winnie Foster is kidnapped, finds herself helping a murderer out of jail, and is eventually offered the ultimate gift--but doesn´t know whether to accept it. Babbitt asks profound questions about the meaning of life and death, and leaves the reader with a greater appreciation for the perfect cycle of nature. Intense and powerful, exciting and poignant, Tuck Everlasting will last forever--in the reader´s imagination. An ALA Notable Book. (Ages 9 to 12) --Emilie Coulter¤

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