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Natalie Babbitt
Natalie Babbitt is the author of the beloved classic Tuck Everlasting. Her stories often explore themes of life, death, and the choices we make.
Tuck Everlasting
Synopsis
Winnie Foster stumbles upon the Tuck family, who possess the secret to eternal life. She finds herself drawn into their hidden world, facing a choice that will impact her future and the Tuck's ageless existence. This classic tale explores the meaning of life and the consequences of immortality.
Genres
Characters
Winnie FosterProtagonist
A ten-year-old girl from an overprotective family who feels stifled by her sheltered life and longs for freedom and adventure of her own.
Man in the Yellow SuitAntagonist
A mysterious stranger who has been tracking the Tucks for years, intending to exploit the spring's secret for his own profit.
Jesse TuckSupporting
The adventurous, seventeen-year-old-seeming younger Tuck son, who befriends Winnie and shows her the family's hidden world.
Mae TuckSupporting
The protective matriarch of the Tuck family, who takes Winnie in and ultimately acts to keep the family's secret from spreading.
Angus TuckSupporting
The weary Tuck family patriarch, who explains to Winnie why living forever without the natural cycle of life and death is more burden than gift.
Christopher Award (1976)Lewis Carroll Shelf Award (1978)
Frequently asked questions
Has Tuck Everlasting been adapted into a film or a musical?
Yes. Natalie Babbitt's novel has been made into two feature films — a 1981 version directed by Frederick King Keller and a 2002 Walt Disney Pictures film directed by Jay Russell, starring Alexis Bledel, Jonathan Jackson, and Ben Kingsley — and into a Broadway musical that opened at the Broadhurst Theatre in April 2016.