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A Note from Me (August 7, 2020)
Dear friends: It’s the first week of August, and thus we remember eternal Friend of the Horn Book Natalie Babbitt, not because it is her birthday but for Tuck Everlasting’s enduring opening line, “The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long...
Natalie Babbitt, 1932–2016
Beloved author and illustrator Natalie Babbitt died this past Monday; she had been recently diagnosed with lung cancer. She gave the children's book world immeasurable gifts — her books. In the New York Times obituary, her husband, Samuel Fisher Babbitt, described her as a remarkable woman "who left her mark in...
Tuck, then, now, and always
Well, it's just past the first week of August, but it's always a good time to visit with old (in this case, very, very old) friends.This year marks the 40th publication anniversary of Natalie Babbitt's Tuck Everlasting. FSG/Square Fish put out a lovely new hardcover edition — with a foreword...
Future Classics: Tuck Everlasting
by Tim Wynne-JonesMy guess is that in the next hundred years they aren't going to find a cure for death. Our children's children's children's children's children might live to be a hundred and forty — poor souls — but while they are still children, each of them will one day...
Circling Tuck: An Interview with Natalie Babbitt
Natalie Babbitt’s Tuck Everlasting was first published in 1975; it has since become a modern classic. Farrar, Straus and Giroux’s 25th anniversary edition of the novel, to be published this spring, features a wide-ranging, deep-digging conversation between Ms. Babbitt and critic Betsy Hearne. The following selection is excerpted from that...
Editorial: The Mystery in the Yellow Suit
As an occasional adjunct instructor in children’s literature, I’ve taught Natalie Babbitt’s Tuck Everlasting three times. While the students have sometimes been contemptuous of my other reading assignments (my beloved Tom’s Midnight Garden in particular seems to reveal a generation gap), they tend to get along quite well with Tuck,...
On the Cover: The Man in the Yellow Suit
by Natalie BabbittThat I should attempt a picture of the man in the yellow suit was Roger Sutton’s idea, and when he first broached it to me, I said no, I was too busy, couldn’t handle it. But almost before the words were out of my mouth, I was struck...
Drawing on the Child Within
by Natalie BabbittOver the years I have noticed that an awful lot of people don't seem to remember what it felt like to be a child. This is hard for me to understand. My childhood is very vivid to me, and I don't feel very different now from the way...
The Rhinoceros and the Pony
by Natalie BabbittOne doesn't want to say anything too shocking in a breakfast speech. It's okay to be shocking in a dinner speech because everyone will be going home soon and can recover in the privacy of bed. But at this hour there's still a whole day ahead, so morning...
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