It was just probably something that made the whole thing a little more laden with sorrows and stuff. She says, "If I took something out, it wasn't because I thought the kids were not going to understand it. Not long before Tuck Everlasting was published, Babbitt wrote to her editor saying she had removed some of its heavier material. And it seemed to me that I could write a story about how it's something that everybody has to do and it's not a bad thing."īut balancing the book's darker themes with the rest of the story was a challenge. And so I wanted to make sure that she would understand what it was more. And it seemed to me that that was the kind of thing you could be scared of for the rest of your life. And we looked into it together, as well as you can with a 4-year-old, and she was very scared with the idea of dying. "One day she had trouble sleeping, woke up crying from a nap. Babbitt/Courtesy of Macmillan Children's Publishing Groupīabbitt says she was inspired to write the book after a conversation she had with her young daughter. Tired of being constantly watched by her overbearing family, she runs. Connect to teacher I am a teacher Summary Ten-year-old Winnie Foster feels shes cooped up in a cage. Natalie Babbitt's other books include The Search for Delicious, Kneeknock Rise and The Moon Over High Street. This deeply affecting novel presents the richly imagined and tantalizing tale of a young girl who stumbles upon a spring whose waters grant eternal life.
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