Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Tuck Everlasting
Book Review: Astonishing!
Summary: 4 Stars
Tuck Everlasting was an awesome book. This book had twists and turns throughout the whole storyline which made it exciting. It's a novel that is good for adults and children. It made me think about life and its
unexpected events. This book makes you wonder about the question of living forever. There were some very odd characters in the story which scared me a little. I gave this story a four star because Babbit never explained how the Tucks got the water and why they drank it. This book was also a dramatic story because somewhere in the story, people find love. Drinking the water was foolish of the family. This book is mysterious and you don't know what will happen next.
Jaren A. Grade 6
Book Review: BEST BOOK EVER!
Summary: 5 Stars
The first time I read this book was at school with my friend. At first I thought the book was not good and challenging, but after the first few chapters I realized that this is the best book ever. I hope that the movie will be just as good as the book.Book Review: BOR-ING
Summary: 1 Stars
During the summer since I had to read 2 books for homework, and I thought I'd try it. But even after 8 chapters I still didn't get it! I felt like going to sleep! I'd rather do a million math problem than read THAT!Book Review: Brilliant!
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is brutally beautiful. With all of the vampire stories these days touting immortality as some magnificent gift, it's great to read a book like Tuck Everlasting, which says that, truthfully, immortality is really not that great.
This is one of those children's books that is much more than what it seems to be. It has a profound theme usually reserved for adult books and that's one of the reasons why it's a classic. It will have you questioning and wondering about the true meaning of life and death, and how important it is to live in the here and now.
The writing is beautiful without being overwrought. The characters are believable and utterly realistic. Most regret their immortality but there is also a character that enjoys the future possibilities, and it's good to see both sides.
The plot is fast-paced and intense, making this book a highly engaging read. I recommend it for people of all ages.
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?