Tuck Everlasting
by Natalie Babbitt
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Author: Natalie BabbittNarrator: Melissa Hughes
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Format: Unabridged
Published: 2001-01
ISBN: 1883332648
Number of pages: 3
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Publisher: Audio Bookshelf
Book Reviews of Tuck Everlasting
Book Review: Compelling; But I'm Missing Something
Summary: 4 Stars
This well-known (and surpisingly lacking of contemporary awards) young adult book is about a little girl and a fountain of eternal life (as we know life, that is). Key players here also include a family of ageless centurions under the fountain's power, a mysterious stranger who would exploit that power, and a cast of hapless citizens in the background who don't realize that they live among the most potent force in their little reality.
I read this aloud to my kids. They were pulled into the story and quite curious about where this would all lead, but I had the distinct sense that there was an attempted charm in this book that the author never fully achieved. The Tucks (the ageless family) are presented as all-powerful-innocents; immortals who (almost all of them) deeply regret their immortality, and whose regret is soothed by an unexplained love for the little girl who they (almost all of them) want desperately to protect from their own endless fate. I got the intent, but the presentation of this situation didn't "move" me like I hoped it would.
All in all, it's a good book but it wouldn't make my top 100 list, although the reviews of my peers are overwhelmingly more worshipful. I did enjoy pondering and discussing the many questions that the book raises, and of course the matters of life and death drip from every page; indeed, by the end of the book, every living thing that we're introduced to is either dead (by one means or another) or plodding through its own eternal changelessness. As a father, it was interesting to see my kids split in their own reactions to the question: would you rather age, change, and die as all things are meant to do, or would you rather live on forever, unchanged and unchangeable? Well?
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