If you haven’t read Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt – go do it! It’s a classic of children’s literature, and one of those elevated children’s texts that reads well as an adult – but also it’s short and sweet, which busy adults can appreciate. Not to mention the story is about life and death, and how much life is too much life, and why death is sad but necessary. Evergreen topics, if you will. Tuck Everlasting is about Winnie, a ten-year-old member of a rather […]
The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of the Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning.
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
The OG Twilight. Seriously, I had to go back and check ten years of internet ago to see if people were talking about this, and they were. The basic plot and set up for this whole world, though not being vampires, is Twilight. So Stephanie Meyer might owe Natalie Babbitt some money. I think I might have read this one as a kid, but it also might just be in the aether of my childhood the way a lot of books are. It’s about a […]