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Tuck Everlasting
by Natalie Babbitt
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
✨Thank you Macmillan Audio for the opportunity to listen to this beautiful new edition early!
When I was little, about ten or so, I was given the luxury of a cassette player in my own room. I can still remember the click of the drawer, settling the little plastic brick into place in the machine, the soft not-quite-silence before the first words began.
“Macmillan Audio presents: Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt. Narrated by Peter Thomas.” Each line its own sentence, released into the dark of my room. An invisible curtain opening in my mind.
On a summer night, with window open to support the efforts of an aggressive ceiling fan, my audiobooks often had a natural accompaniment from the woods outside my house. The trill of cicadas and crickets, the percussive work of a woodpecker, the soft call of an owl.
I was captivated by Natalie Babbitt’s fantastical and wise words. The Search for Delicious was another repeated listen.
First published in 1975, before I was born, I listened to the 50th anniversary edition as a 35 year-old adult. Contemporary author Gabrielle Zevin (Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow), talks about the uncanny and inevitable passing of time in her forward for the 50th Anniversary Edition.
With the bulk of this dual perspective told through the eyes of ten-year-old Winnie, this book has always deserved a female voice. There’s something incredibly special about hearing one of my favorite stories read by the actress who played Winnie in the 2002 film adaptation.
From the start, Alexis Bledel’s clear and musical voice wraps around Babbitt’s beautiful description of Tree Gap, inviting you inside the story.
If you’re new to the book, you’re in for a treat. And if you’re returning after years away, you’ll discover an old friend with new things to teach you.
When I was little, about ten or so, I was given the luxury of a cassette player in my own room. I can still remember the click of the drawer, settling the little plastic brick into place in the machine, the soft not-quite-silence before the first words began.
“Macmillan Audio presents: Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt. Narrated by Peter Thomas.” Each line its own sentence, released into the dark of my room. An invisible curtain opening in my mind.
On a summer night, with window open to support the efforts of an aggressive ceiling fan, my audiobooks often had a natural accompaniment from the woods outside my house. The trill of cicadas and crickets, the percussive work of a woodpecker, the soft call of an owl.
I was captivated by Natalie Babbitt’s fantastical and wise words. The Search for Delicious was another repeated listen.
First published in 1975, before I was born, I listened to the 50th anniversary edition as a 35 year-old adult. Contemporary author Gabrielle Zevin (Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow), talks about the uncanny and inevitable passing of time in her forward for the 50th Anniversary Edition.
With the bulk of this dual perspective told through the eyes of ten-year-old Winnie, this book has always deserved a female voice. There’s something incredibly special about hearing one of my favorite stories read by the actress who played Winnie in the 2002 film adaptation.
From the start, Alexis Bledel’s clear and musical voice wraps around Babbitt’s beautiful description of Tree Gap, inviting you inside the story.
If you’re new to the book, you’re in for a treat. And if you’re returning after years away, you’ll discover an old friend with new things to teach you.