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Die jährige Winnie Foster verliebt sich unsterblich in den zwei Jahre älteren Jesse Tuck, der sich auch zu ihr hingezogen fühlt. Allerdings wahrt er ein dunkles Geheimnis: er und seine Familie haben einst aus einem Jungbrunnen getrunken. Bis in alle Ewigkeit (Originaltitel: Tuck Everlasting) ist ein US-amerikanisches Filmdrama aus dem Jahr unter der Regie von Jay Russell. Die Hauptrollen. isotopes-conference.eu - Kaufen Sie Disney's Tuck Everlasting by Alexis Bledel günstig ein. Qualifizierte Bestellungen werden kostenlos geliefert. Sie finden Rezensionen. Tuck Everlasting: isotopes-conference.eu: Babbitt, Natalie, Thomas, Peter: Fremdsprachige Bücher. Walt Disney Pictures' TUCK EVERLASTING, a timeless and enchanting adventure about one girl's magical summer, will captivate audiences of any age. Young. der unsterBlichen / Tuck Everlasting (German Edition) [Babbitt, Natalie] on isotopes-conference.eu *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. der unsterBlichen / Tuck. Tuck Everlasting. Buch von Claudia Shear and Tim Federle Gesangstexte von Nathan Tysen Musik von Chris Miller Basierend auf dem Kinderroman Tuck.
She becomes enamored with their slow and simple way of life and falls in love with Jesse. She learns that the Tucks cannot age or be injured due to drinking water from a magic spring around a hundred years ago and that they kidnapped her to hide the secret.
This drinking water is the Fountain of Youth and makes the Tucks immortal. They tell her that living forever is more painful than it sounds and believe that giving away the secret of the spring will lead to everyone wanting to drink from it and they are worried it might go in the wrong hands.
A man in a yellow suit befriends the Fosters while Winnie is gone. He spies on the Tucks and he desires the spring to sell the water.
He makes a deal to save Winnie and get the forest. He goes to the Tucks and orders them to reveal where the spring is; when they deny any knowledge about the spring he threatens Winnie with a pistol.
He calls their bluff by shooting Jesse and exposing his youth; but in return Jesse's mother, Mae, kills him with the rear end of a rifle.
The constable arrests Mae and Angus. Mae is sentenced to be hanged for murdering the man. After being returned home, Winnie is woken by Jesse who begs her to help him free his parents.
The family fears that if Mae will be hanged the next day, she won't die and their immortality will be exposed to the public.
Winnie helps Jesse and Miles to break the Tucks out of jail and say goodbye to them. Jesse, who has fallen in love with Winnie, asks her to join them, but Angus warns her that it is dangerous to go with them as they will be hunted.
Jesse tells Winnie to drink from the spring so she could live forever and never age, then he will come back for her when everything is safe.
He leaves promising to love her until the day he dies. After the Tucks depart, Winnie chooses not to drink the water as Angus warned her that being immortal is far worse than living life and that she should not fear death.
He goes into the woods and at the base of the great tree he finds Winnie's headstone marking the site of where the spring once stood. The stone reads that Winnie became a wife and mother before passing away at years of age.
Jesse sits at her grave, smiling through his tears and remembering her. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This is going to be so much fun!
View all 45 comments. Jul 30, Anne rated it really liked it Shelves: the-kid-in-me , classics. And eventually, after a train of exhaustive musings on the aforementioned subjects, I decided I wanted to read something pertaining to them.
But what? I really don't know of any other books that explore the subject of life and perils of immortality, except for this one.
Hence, my reread. I read this in about 3 hours because I didn't indulge too much or peruse the story with tedious attention.
It was so easy to get by because I anticipated the story's line of progression. I almost knew it scene by scene. The answer: Yes. And no.
Yes, I still think I wouldn't appreciate eternal life. I still think It's a long and lonely stretch into nothingness. How tiresome and staggeringly painful would that be?
To watch worlds, ages and men pass away while you remain. To have to reinvent and reorient yourself in life.
Over and over again, living an ageless and interminable life of love and loss. What a vicious cycle indeed! I shiver just thinking about it.
And what about death? Couldn't death be a miracle of it's own. A small, kind, and cynical sort of miracle. It's easy to think like this because at the end of the day, death truly is all the option we have.
I wonder how fast I'll fling my songs of "cursed immortality" out the window if immortality ever happened to show up at my doorstep with a proposition in hand.
That's the difference between what is and what if, I guess. I'm organic and volatile. I'm the difference, and choice makes all the difference.
Just like Winnie's did. I think of Winnie's choice, how bittersweet the ending of this book was because of it.
And it makes me sad and happy all at once. With the Tucks, my feelings are in an unrivaled state of monopoly. I feel incredibly sad for them.
The one thing they never had was the privilege of choice. Or at least the illusion of it , because of course, death again, is imminent and unavoidable.
I honestly wonder how I'll feel the next time I reread this. Moving, growing, changing, never the same two minutes together.
Everything's a wheel, turning" Yesterday morning the first snow fell. I had gone through more than half of this book and I was still wondering, "what's so bad about not dying?
Seems like a pretty good thing to me. And there it was, the very first snow. I once hated snow, I'm an autumn baby, and I love spring.
I'm not a fan of summer or winter. But over the years, my point of view has shifted a little. I think I like snow and winter a little more with each passing year.
It just gets more beautiful every time it comes around. And I like that you know, that some things just get more beautiful every time you see them.
And still there are some things that remain just as beautiful as the first day you saw them, never really becoming less or more. Somehow you get accustomed to their charm, and the effect is lost on you.
It's not that beauty itself is lost or diminished, you just aren't startled or awed by it anymore. I think I like the first variant more. I know, I know.
But what does this have to do with the review? Well I thought about it. What if there was snow all year round?
What if spring didn't give life, summer didn't celebrate it, autumn didn't kill it, and winter didn't bury it in heaps of white?
A life without change. Everlasting stagnancy. Would that life be as precious? I don't think I'd appreciate nature and the seasons as much, or think them as beautiful.
I don't think I'd like it at all. Time and change are all part of the entirety of life. Birth and death, seasons changing, trees lush and barren --it's the circle of life, and nothing is more beautiful.
And that's what this book is trying to saying. So you can't call it living, what we got The Tucks are a family doomed to live an endless life, they bear the curse of immortality.
Ten year old Winnie Foster is a sheltered and miserable girl who longs for freedom and dreams of running away.
The lives of the two parties become entwined, and Winnie learns a little about the value of life in the first week of August, in the year But dying's part of the wheel, right there next to being born.
This story, the writing, the message, all of it was just simple and beautiful. A lesson and toast: Here's to dying, but first living.
View all 52 comments. Jun 21, Debbie rated it it was amazing Shelves: kids-teens-good-bad , fit-for-eliska-age , classics , best-readsthrough Description out the ying yang, and there I was out in nature again, where I risked running into bees and poison ivy while dying of the heat.
And there were other things that normally would chase me away. And that means horse travel! Give me zooming cars any day. Is it simply that where there are horses, there is manure?
So a lot of strikes, huh? But first I have to tell you why I was reading it in the first place. It was time for a new one. As I began reading, I knew I was in trouble.
My thoughts exactly. Is it okay to change your mind and ditch it? I blame my bad memory for the pickle I found myself in. I was absolutely sure my daughter Jess had raved about this book in middle school.
So after the first less-than-thrilling reading session with Eliska, I called Jess, anxious to brag that I was reading it and determined not to bum her out by telling her it sucked.
I had the wrong book! Why the hell was I reading this slow book fraught with everything I hate? Suddenly I felt okay about ditching it. Then, ding, I remember!
Wow, yes, I remember now! I laughed and told Jess, wondering if I should switch out Tuck for Bridge. She wanted to set me straight so she started naming a bunch of Roald Dahl books she loved; I madly scribbled down the titles, not trusting my memory one iota.
Meanwhile, what to do with Tuck? Do I keep reading? There was a lot of excitement and tension. The book is short; I wanted more.
I wanted the book to be everlasting. I actually am shocked that this book got pigeon-holed as YA. I throw 5 stars out into the air as I merrily pogo-stick through the woods no bees or poison ivy in sight.
Highly recommend! View all 38 comments. Apr 27, Karina rated it it was amazing. What an amazing little book. How can an author say so much and describe so many scenes of nature and a person in a paragraph?
Clearly, she was this talented. I still don't know but it's an interesting choice to have. View all 9 comments. Jul 22, Julie rated it really liked it Shelves: coming-of-age.
Natalie Moore was a writer and an illustrator who went on to marry a fellow writer named Samuel Fisher Babbitt. Bibbity bobbity boo , next thing we knew, Natalie Moore was writing as Natalie Babbitt.
And Ms. Babbitt went on to write this famous little book called Tuck Everlasting , a young adult story with a delicious cover and a clever, real writer's name.
A name that kept reminding me of someone who'd be related to Bilbo Baggins and Peter Rabbit. And, if you know Beatrix Potter's work, you can rec Natalie Moore was a writer and an illustrator who went on to marry a fellow writer named Samuel Fisher Babbitt.
And, if you know Beatrix Potter's work, you can recognize that Natalie married a man whose two names are also titles of two of Potter's famous tales: Samuel Whiskers and Mr.
Jeremy Fisher. Babbitt's writing was so incredibly playful? So magical? I'm not sure, but it is. It made me think of both Beatrix Potter and Lewis Carroll, and the year-old protagonist, Winnie Foster, takes readers on an Alice-esque journey of wonder and questions and confusion.
It is the United States, circa ; but you realize quickly that Ms. Babbitt loved the natural world and liked playing around in a mess of words.
Words that work, and are fun. But, in case you get confused and think it's playtime. Babbitt also lets you know that she likes to think really big thoughts.
By the end, you and Winnie are left scratching your ears. You wonder. This book is full of wonder.
And it's wonderful for readers and writers to be exposed to Ms. Babbitt, who writes like a hobbit. View all 22 comments.
Tuck Everlasting is one of those books everyone should read at a young age. After all, who hasn't ever thought at least once about how it would be to live eternally, to be free to do everything you want to, to embrace life in all its different facets?
The way this short novel deals with eternal life - and raising the question about whether or not that can be considered a blessing or doom - makes it an important addition to the literary world.
Fast-paced and easy to read, this is a book to devour Tuck Everlasting is one of those books everyone should read at a young age.
Fast-paced and easy to read, this is a book to devour in the course of three or four short hours, and while not the most involving book which can be found out there, at least it is able to make you think about what it would be like to have to live like the Tuck family does: Wandering around eternally and restlessly, comdemned to live on this earth until its very end.
The book itself introduces the character of Winnie Foster, an eleven-year-old girl who meets the Tuck family and soon learns of their unbelievable secret: that the four members of that family are immortal after they drank from a magic spring.
Natalie Babbitt's prose is strong and powerful, drawing a convincing picture of how life can possibly work without death. Yet the book in itself is not without flaws; she never allowed the characters to become realistic.
For me, especially the Tuck family felt like a gathering of stereotypes, and the lack of dynamics between the family members itself didn't help matters.
Yet the potential was exploited almost completely, additionally helped by some strong messages the connection between life and death, the ideas of human greed and constant change, the contrast between morality and craving, and the values of love and humanity.
The only thing which constantly bothered me was the way the Tuck family behaved - at least except for Jesse, the youngest son.
If you are condemned to live your life on this earth forever, why constantly complain about your situation rather than actually doing something purposeful with your immortality?
But then, maybe that was yet another message Babbitt implied in her novel: that the good-hearted are almost never those who actually want to change something in this world, while those with immoral and evil-minded purposes long to rule the world.
View all 23 comments. Mar 26, Hilary rated it it was amazing Recommends it for: Those who love great stories and philosophical ideas.
Shelves: family-stories , female-author-or-illustrator , friendship , magic , losing-a-loved-one , outdoor-play , philosophy , runaways , top-twelve-favourites-of-all-time.
We loved this story, we loved the concept, the descriptions of nature, the relationships between the characters.
The philosophical ideas were good, we loved thinking about what this storyline suggested and how although it seemed the ideal thing to be granted, the people who had it found it more than a curse than a blessing.
In my naivety I still think it would be ideal as long as those you loved were in on it too, but yes, I can see it would get complicated, and where would it stop?
The music bo We loved this story, we loved the concept, the descriptions of nature, the relationships between the characters. The music box was an interesting part, we really wanted to know what tune it played.
We couldn't predict the ending and we enjoyed speculating how this story would be concluded. Despite really enjoying this at the time, I was left with a sad feeling after the story had ended.
View all 25 comments. Tuck Everlasting, Natalie Babbitt Ten-year-old Winifred "Winnie" Foster is frustrated with her family, and considers running away from her home in rural Treegap.
One day, while in a wooded area her family owns, she sees a boy of about 17 drinking from a spring.
He introduces himself as Jesse Tuck, and tells her not to drink the spring water. Soon after, his brother Miles, and his mother Mae, take her away with them.
On the way, they are pursued by a man in a yellow suit, who had approached the Fo Tuck Everlasting, Natalie Babbitt Ten-year-old Winifred "Winnie" Foster is frustrated with her family, and considers running away from her home in rural Treegap.
On the way, they are pursued by a man in a yellow suit, who had approached the Fosters asking questions about their land the day before.
The Tucks explain to Winnie that the spring grants eternal life to anyone who drinks its water, effects which they discovered by accident.
In the process, Miles had to cope with his wife leaving him and taking their children. They have been living in seclusion outside of Treegap for years, reuniting every ten years, and drinking from the spring.
Winnie grows particularly fond of Jesse, and his father, Angus Tuck. Meanwhile, the man in the yellow suit, has been pursuing the Tucks.
Once he discovers they have taken Winifred, he steals their horse and rides it back to the Foster homestead.
After he informs her family of Winnie's whereabouts, they dispatch him, and the local constable to return her.
However, he breaks away, and rides ahead of the constable, for he has a selfish motive for finding Winnie. When the man in the yellow suit arrives at the Tucks' farm, he informs them that he has been searching for them for years.
Miles' wife and children had come to live with his family when he was a boy, and he heard rumors of their secret. He then informs the angry family that he told the Fosters where Winnie was and that he has received a bounty in exchange, for her safe return: the wooded area, and with it the spring.
He plans to gather the water from the spring, and sell it to the public. There'd be time to learn to play an instrument.
You'd have all the time in the world to master all sorts of skills. But, there would be drawbacks, of course there would.
Just ask Dr. You'd have to "Know what that is, all around us, Winnie? You'd have to watch your loved ones grow old and die.
You'd still need to work and earn money. And, one thing I never thought of until I read this book - you'd need to move around quite a bit, as others became suspicious of your lack of visible aging.
And if that means I got to move on at the end of it, then I want that, too. If people knowed about the spring down there in Treegap, they'd all come running like pigs to slops.
They'd trample each other, trying to get some of that water. That'd be bad enough, but afterwards - can you imagine? All the little ones little forever, all the old ones old forever.
Can you picture what that means? The wheel would keep rolling by to the ocean, but the people would've turned into nothing but rocks by the side of the road.
I suppose this is considered a classic; though it was only published in , it seems much older. There is a timeless appeal to this book, but perhaps it is it's subject matter that makes it seem immortal.
I mostly enjoyed the book. Things that annoyed other readers - the age difference between Winnie and Jesse, the few plot holes, the ending - didn't bother me a bit.
Ah, the ending. I loved the ending. I loved that the author view spoiler [did not shy away from death - a sad, but necessary part of life.
READ it! I wish I had - I listened to the audiobook which was narrated by Peter Thomas. He did a fine job, but his voice reminded me of those voice-overs from all the film strips I was forced to watch in elementary school.
Is it time for recess yet? View 2 comments. Reread for our tmgreadalong classics challenge! Jul 18, Kristina Horner rated it it was amazing Shelves: childhood-books , audiobooks.
Never actually read this book as a child - only saw the movie. Listened to the audiobook for booktubeathon with my boyfriend and we both loved it!
It's a very radio-drama-esque good vs. Nov 03, K. Absolutely rated it did not like it Shelves: childrens. The Cullen family meets Gretel minus Hansel.
However, the Cullens are vampires and the idea of vampires being immortals was originally thought of by Bram Stoker while the Tucks have drank water from The Cullen family meets Gretel minus Hansel.
However, the Cullens are vampires and the idea of vampires being immortals was originally thought of by Bram Stoker while the Tucks have drank water from the spring of youth which is similar to the fountain of youth that was first thought of by Herodotus several years ago before the birth of Jesus Christ.
In the book, Winnie wants to run away because she is tired of being cooped up being the only child. I guess this is the reason why the film executives change the reason to that of Winnie being planned to be sent by her parents to a boarding school.
This is the impossible or already used-a-million-times scheme and I thought it lacked imagination. So the film executives probably were with me so they concocted a more elaborate situation in the film: Winnie tells the prison guard that the people who kidnapped her are back to get her.
He runs outside with a shotgun to face them. He shoots them, but runs away when he sees they cannot die.
Meanwhile, Winnie grabs his keys and unlocks Mae and Angus's cell doors. I thought it was a more sensible scheme. In the book, Winnie seems to be falling in love with Jesse.
This might be an exaggeration but Winnie described Jesse twice in her mind as beautiful with the green eyes like jade or something.
I am not sure about this but when my daughter was 10, she was as innocent as a babe in the woods and did not have crushes yet and she looked at boys like playmates to shoot balls with.
I know it is different from one girl to the next but my daughter was also an only child and they say that the people of yesteryears were more conservative than this or the recent generations including mine.
I can see why some readers would like this book but not me. View all 14 comments. Oct 05, Duane rated it really liked it Shelves: rated-books , fantasy , book-challenge , reviewed-books , childrens.
This review contains spoilers. The year is The Tuck family lives in the small rural town of Treegap, New Hampshire. There is a spring there, located in the Foster's Wood, with water that will give you immortality.
If you are 17 when you drink it, 17 you will be forever. The Tuck family knows this because 80 years earlier they drank the water and haven't aged a day since.
But now 10 year old Winnie Foster has discovered their secret which creates all kinds of problems for everyone involved, This review contains spoilers.
But now 10 year old Winnie Foster has discovered their secret which creates all kinds of problems for everyone involved, and so the story unfolds.
Would you do it if you could? After reading this you will think maybe, but maybe not. It's a thought provoking story with great characters that are easy to love, and the ending has a little bit of a twist.
View all 7 comments. Actual rating, 3. This is a perfectly whimsical read and, had my younger self read this, then I could see this becoming a firm childhood favourite.
As it is, I feel I am too old to really appreciate the fantastic and yet simplistic story. It saddens me to say this, really. It means that my more mature self has picked plot holes and problems where only beauty and simplicity should reign.
This is living proof that growing up is definitely bad for you! The story was poignant, whimsical and sw Actual rating, 3. The story was poignant, whimsical and sweet and exactly what I was expecting.
The descriptions the novel opened with transported me into the world and I found this wonderfully eloquent for a book aimed at a younger audience.
I also fell in love with the characters. Our protagonist, Winnie, and the entire Tuck family feel warm and welcoming to the reader and I felt a fuzzy feeling inside whilst reading this!
My problems with the novel were really only minor inconsistencies, and yet they jarred with my understanding and enjoyment of the novel.
There were many coincidences and plot holes and, again, this is something that probably would not bother or even be picked up on by the audience it was aimed for.
I also felt like the age difference between Winnie and Jesse was wrong on so many levels In all, this is a very sweet and simplistic tale and I am only sorry that I had not read it when I was younger, to truly appreciate the brilliance of the story.
Feb 20, Maddie D rated it it was amazing. My favorite part in the book is when Jesse asks Winnie if she wants to wait 6 years and then get married and go on adventures.
I like this part in the book because you would never expect that it would happen. It was an interesting and surprising part of this book.
I can relate to Winnie because I always wanted to be my own independent person. I always wanted to walk to school by myself and pack my own lunch, I just wanted to be responsible like Winnie.
The book Tuck Everlasting is a great book because it can be mysterious when the man in the yellow suit follows Winnie and the Tucks.
It can also be very interesting because the Tucks are immortal, which is very unrealistic but it makes the story interesting.
It's like what it would be if it the world was immortal. It really makes you think about it if you get down deep into the story. Some characters like being immortal, some don't.
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Winnie Foster has everything a young woman could desire. She comes from a well-bred, wealthy, and respected family. She dresses in the finest clothes and is afforded every opportunity to refine herself.
But Winnie finds that the heat of summer is not nearly as stifling as her gilded cage. She longs for freedom, for adventure. She escapes one morning to explore the woods surrounding her family's home, and encounters the Tucks, a close-knit family with a mysterious past that begs the question: If you could live forever, would you?
And just when Winnie believes she has answered that question for herself, a mysterious man looking to profit from the source of the Tuck's immortality that will have her question her life, her desires, and what is the right thing to do.
And in the end, learns, that death is not what is to be feared, but an unlived life. Written by Alyssa B. Looking for something to watch?
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View all 12 comments. Shelves: classic , fantasy , middle-grade. I read this book as a birthday gift to the one and only Awesome Kat Stark who is celebrating her birthday on September Read her wonderful review by clicking on her name.
I confess. Once in my young life, I dreamed of becoming immortal and invisible and you have to admit you did too.
What, no? Oh come on, admit it! We were all children after all. This classic tale addresses one of our childhood fantasies- immortality. Wisely told in a genuine classic formula, this is a heartwarming story about the Tuck family who never grew old.
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This is going to be so much fun! View all 45 comments. Jul 30, Anne rated it really liked it Shelves: the-kid-in-me , classics. And eventually, after a train of exhaustive musings on the aforementioned subjects, I decided I wanted to read something pertaining to them.
But what? I really don't know of any other books that explore the subject of life and perils of immortality, except for this one.
Hence, my reread. I read this in about 3 hours because I didn't indulge too much or peruse the story with tedious attention.
It was so easy to get by because I anticipated the story's line of progression. I almost knew it scene by scene.
The answer: Yes. And no. Yes, I still think I wouldn't appreciate eternal life. I still think It's a long and lonely stretch into nothingness.
How tiresome and staggeringly painful would that be? To watch worlds, ages and men pass away while you remain.
To have to reinvent and reorient yourself in life. Over and over again, living an ageless and interminable life of love and loss. What a vicious cycle indeed!
I shiver just thinking about it. And what about death? Couldn't death be a miracle of it's own. A small, kind, and cynical sort of miracle.
It's easy to think like this because at the end of the day, death truly is all the option we have. I wonder how fast I'll fling my songs of "cursed immortality" out the window if immortality ever happened to show up at my doorstep with a proposition in hand.
That's the difference between what is and what if, I guess. I'm organic and volatile. I'm the difference, and choice makes all the difference.
Just like Winnie's did. I think of Winnie's choice, how bittersweet the ending of this book was because of it.
And it makes me sad and happy all at once. With the Tucks, my feelings are in an unrivaled state of monopoly. I feel incredibly sad for them.
The one thing they never had was the privilege of choice. Or at least the illusion of it , because of course, death again, is imminent and unavoidable.
I honestly wonder how I'll feel the next time I reread this. Moving, growing, changing, never the same two minutes together. Everything's a wheel, turning" Yesterday morning the first snow fell.
I had gone through more than half of this book and I was still wondering, "what's so bad about not dying?
Seems like a pretty good thing to me. And there it was, the very first snow. I once hated snow, I'm an autumn baby, and I love spring. I'm not a fan of summer or winter.
But over the years, my point of view has shifted a little. I think I like snow and winter a little more with each passing year.
It just gets more beautiful every time it comes around. And I like that you know, that some things just get more beautiful every time you see them. And still there are some things that remain just as beautiful as the first day you saw them, never really becoming less or more.
Somehow you get accustomed to their charm, and the effect is lost on you. It's not that beauty itself is lost or diminished, you just aren't startled or awed by it anymore.
I think I like the first variant more. I know, I know. But what does this have to do with the review? Well I thought about it.
What if there was snow all year round? What if spring didn't give life, summer didn't celebrate it, autumn didn't kill it, and winter didn't bury it in heaps of white?
A life without change. Everlasting stagnancy. Would that life be as precious? I don't think I'd appreciate nature and the seasons as much, or think them as beautiful.
I don't think I'd like it at all. Time and change are all part of the entirety of life. Birth and death, seasons changing, trees lush and barren --it's the circle of life, and nothing is more beautiful.
And that's what this book is trying to saying. So you can't call it living, what we got The Tucks are a family doomed to live an endless life, they bear the curse of immortality.
Ten year old Winnie Foster is a sheltered and miserable girl who longs for freedom and dreams of running away. The lives of the two parties become entwined, and Winnie learns a little about the value of life in the first week of August, in the year But dying's part of the wheel, right there next to being born.
This story, the writing, the message, all of it was just simple and beautiful. A lesson and toast: Here's to dying, but first living.
View all 52 comments. Jun 21, Debbie rated it it was amazing Shelves: kids-teens-good-bad , fit-for-eliska-age , classics , best-readsthrough Description out the ying yang, and there I was out in nature again, where I risked running into bees and poison ivy while dying of the heat.
And there were other things that normally would chase me away. And that means horse travel! Give me zooming cars any day. Is it simply that where there are horses, there is manure?
So a lot of strikes, huh? But first I have to tell you why I was reading it in the first place. It was time for a new one.
As I began reading, I knew I was in trouble. My thoughts exactly. Is it okay to change your mind and ditch it? I blame my bad memory for the pickle I found myself in.
I was absolutely sure my daughter Jess had raved about this book in middle school. So after the first less-than-thrilling reading session with Eliska, I called Jess, anxious to brag that I was reading it and determined not to bum her out by telling her it sucked.
I had the wrong book! Why the hell was I reading this slow book fraught with everything I hate? Suddenly I felt okay about ditching it.
Then, ding, I remember! Wow, yes, I remember now! I laughed and told Jess, wondering if I should switch out Tuck for Bridge. She wanted to set me straight so she started naming a bunch of Roald Dahl books she loved; I madly scribbled down the titles, not trusting my memory one iota.
Meanwhile, what to do with Tuck? Do I keep reading? There was a lot of excitement and tension. The book is short; I wanted more.
I wanted the book to be everlasting. I actually am shocked that this book got pigeon-holed as YA. I throw 5 stars out into the air as I merrily pogo-stick through the woods no bees or poison ivy in sight.
Highly recommend! View all 38 comments. Apr 27, Karina rated it it was amazing. What an amazing little book. How can an author say so much and describe so many scenes of nature and a person in a paragraph?
Clearly, she was this talented. I still don't know but it's an interesting choice to have. View all 9 comments.
Jul 22, Julie rated it really liked it Shelves: coming-of-age. Natalie Moore was a writer and an illustrator who went on to marry a fellow writer named Samuel Fisher Babbitt.
Bibbity bobbity boo , next thing we knew, Natalie Moore was writing as Natalie Babbitt. And Ms. Babbitt went on to write this famous little book called Tuck Everlasting , a young adult story with a delicious cover and a clever, real writer's name.
A name that kept reminding me of someone who'd be related to Bilbo Baggins and Peter Rabbit. And, if you know Beatrix Potter's work, you can rec Natalie Moore was a writer and an illustrator who went on to marry a fellow writer named Samuel Fisher Babbitt.
And, if you know Beatrix Potter's work, you can recognize that Natalie married a man whose two names are also titles of two of Potter's famous tales: Samuel Whiskers and Mr.
Jeremy Fisher. Babbitt's writing was so incredibly playful? So magical? I'm not sure, but it is. It made me think of both Beatrix Potter and Lewis Carroll, and the year-old protagonist, Winnie Foster, takes readers on an Alice-esque journey of wonder and questions and confusion.
It is the United States, circa ; but you realize quickly that Ms. Babbitt loved the natural world and liked playing around in a mess of words. Words that work, and are fun.
But, in case you get confused and think it's playtime. Babbitt also lets you know that she likes to think really big thoughts.
By the end, you and Winnie are left scratching your ears. You wonder. This book is full of wonder. And it's wonderful for readers and writers to be exposed to Ms.
Babbitt, who writes like a hobbit. View all 22 comments. Tuck Everlasting is one of those books everyone should read at a young age. After all, who hasn't ever thought at least once about how it would be to live eternally, to be free to do everything you want to, to embrace life in all its different facets?
The way this short novel deals with eternal life - and raising the question about whether or not that can be considered a blessing or doom - makes it an important addition to the literary world.
Fast-paced and easy to read, this is a book to devour Tuck Everlasting is one of those books everyone should read at a young age.
Fast-paced and easy to read, this is a book to devour in the course of three or four short hours, and while not the most involving book which can be found out there, at least it is able to make you think about what it would be like to have to live like the Tuck family does: Wandering around eternally and restlessly, comdemned to live on this earth until its very end.
The book itself introduces the character of Winnie Foster, an eleven-year-old girl who meets the Tuck family and soon learns of their unbelievable secret: that the four members of that family are immortal after they drank from a magic spring.
Natalie Babbitt's prose is strong and powerful, drawing a convincing picture of how life can possibly work without death.
Yet the book in itself is not without flaws; she never allowed the characters to become realistic. For me, especially the Tuck family felt like a gathering of stereotypes, and the lack of dynamics between the family members itself didn't help matters.
Yet the potential was exploited almost completely, additionally helped by some strong messages the connection between life and death, the ideas of human greed and constant change, the contrast between morality and craving, and the values of love and humanity.
The only thing which constantly bothered me was the way the Tuck family behaved - at least except for Jesse, the youngest son. If you are condemned to live your life on this earth forever, why constantly complain about your situation rather than actually doing something purposeful with your immortality?
But then, maybe that was yet another message Babbitt implied in her novel: that the good-hearted are almost never those who actually want to change something in this world, while those with immoral and evil-minded purposes long to rule the world.
View all 23 comments. Mar 26, Hilary rated it it was amazing Recommends it for: Those who love great stories and philosophical ideas.
Shelves: family-stories , female-author-or-illustrator , friendship , magic , losing-a-loved-one , outdoor-play , philosophy , runaways , top-twelve-favourites-of-all-time.
We loved this story, we loved the concept, the descriptions of nature, the relationships between the characters. The philosophical ideas were good, we loved thinking about what this storyline suggested and how although it seemed the ideal thing to be granted, the people who had it found it more than a curse than a blessing.
In my naivety I still think it would be ideal as long as those you loved were in on it too, but yes, I can see it would get complicated, and where would it stop?
The music bo We loved this story, we loved the concept, the descriptions of nature, the relationships between the characters. The music box was an interesting part, we really wanted to know what tune it played.
We couldn't predict the ending and we enjoyed speculating how this story would be concluded. Despite really enjoying this at the time, I was left with a sad feeling after the story had ended.
View all 25 comments. Tuck Everlasting, Natalie Babbitt Ten-year-old Winifred "Winnie" Foster is frustrated with her family, and considers running away from her home in rural Treegap.
One day, while in a wooded area her family owns, she sees a boy of about 17 drinking from a spring. He introduces himself as Jesse Tuck, and tells her not to drink the spring water.
Soon after, his brother Miles, and his mother Mae, take her away with them. On the way, they are pursued by a man in a yellow suit, who had approached the Fo Tuck Everlasting, Natalie Babbitt Ten-year-old Winifred "Winnie" Foster is frustrated with her family, and considers running away from her home in rural Treegap.
On the way, they are pursued by a man in a yellow suit, who had approached the Fosters asking questions about their land the day before. The Tucks explain to Winnie that the spring grants eternal life to anyone who drinks its water, effects which they discovered by accident.
In the process, Miles had to cope with his wife leaving him and taking their children. They have been living in seclusion outside of Treegap for years, reuniting every ten years, and drinking from the spring.
Winnie grows particularly fond of Jesse, and his father, Angus Tuck. Meanwhile, the man in the yellow suit, has been pursuing the Tucks.
Once he discovers they have taken Winifred, he steals their horse and rides it back to the Foster homestead.
After he informs her family of Winnie's whereabouts, they dispatch him, and the local constable to return her.
However, he breaks away, and rides ahead of the constable, for he has a selfish motive for finding Winnie.
When the man in the yellow suit arrives at the Tucks' farm, he informs them that he has been searching for them for years. Miles' wife and children had come to live with his family when he was a boy, and he heard rumors of their secret.
He then informs the angry family that he told the Fosters where Winnie was and that he has received a bounty in exchange, for her safe return: the wooded area, and with it the spring.
He plans to gather the water from the spring, and sell it to the public. There'd be time to learn to play an instrument. You'd have all the time in the world to master all sorts of skills.
But, there would be drawbacks, of course there would. Just ask Dr. You'd have to "Know what that is, all around us, Winnie?
You'd have to watch your loved ones grow old and die. You'd still need to work and earn money. And, one thing I never thought of until I read this book - you'd need to move around quite a bit, as others became suspicious of your lack of visible aging.
And if that means I got to move on at the end of it, then I want that, too. If people knowed about the spring down there in Treegap, they'd all come running like pigs to slops.
They'd trample each other, trying to get some of that water. That'd be bad enough, but afterwards - can you imagine? All the little ones little forever, all the old ones old forever.
Can you picture what that means? The wheel would keep rolling by to the ocean, but the people would've turned into nothing but rocks by the side of the road.
I suppose this is considered a classic; though it was only published in , it seems much older. There is a timeless appeal to this book, but perhaps it is it's subject matter that makes it seem immortal.
I mostly enjoyed the book. Things that annoyed other readers - the age difference between Winnie and Jesse, the few plot holes, the ending - didn't bother me a bit.
Ah, the ending. I loved the ending. I loved that the author view spoiler [did not shy away from death - a sad, but necessary part of life.
READ it! I wish I had - I listened to the audiobook which was narrated by Peter Thomas. He did a fine job, but his voice reminded me of those voice-overs from all the film strips I was forced to watch in elementary school.
Is it time for recess yet? View 2 comments. Reread for our tmgreadalong classics challenge! Jul 18, Kristina Horner rated it it was amazing Shelves: childhood-books , audiobooks.
Never actually read this book as a child - only saw the movie. Listened to the audiobook for booktubeathon with my boyfriend and we both loved it!
It's a very radio-drama-esque good vs. Nov 03, K. Absolutely rated it did not like it Shelves: childrens. The Cullen family meets Gretel minus Hansel.
However, the Cullens are vampires and the idea of vampires being immortals was originally thought of by Bram Stoker while the Tucks have drank water from The Cullen family meets Gretel minus Hansel.
However, the Cullens are vampires and the idea of vampires being immortals was originally thought of by Bram Stoker while the Tucks have drank water from the spring of youth which is similar to the fountain of youth that was first thought of by Herodotus several years ago before the birth of Jesus Christ.
In the book, Winnie wants to run away because she is tired of being cooped up being the only child.
I guess this is the reason why the film executives change the reason to that of Winnie being planned to be sent by her parents to a boarding school.
This is the impossible or already used-a-million-times scheme and I thought it lacked imagination.
So the film executives probably were with me so they concocted a more elaborate situation in the film: Winnie tells the prison guard that the people who kidnapped her are back to get her.
He runs outside with a shotgun to face them. He shoots them, but runs away when he sees they cannot die.
Meanwhile, Winnie grabs his keys and unlocks Mae and Angus's cell doors. I thought it was a more sensible scheme. In the book, Winnie seems to be falling in love with Jesse.
This might be an exaggeration but Winnie described Jesse twice in her mind as beautiful with the green eyes like jade or something. I am not sure about this but when my daughter was 10, she was as innocent as a babe in the woods and did not have crushes yet and she looked at boys like playmates to shoot balls with.
I know it is different from one girl to the next but my daughter was also an only child and they say that the people of yesteryears were more conservative than this or the recent generations including mine.
I can see why some readers would like this book but not me. View all 14 comments. Oct 05, Duane rated it really liked it Shelves: rated-books , fantasy , book-challenge , reviewed-books , childrens.
This review contains spoilers. The year is The Tuck family lives in the small rural town of Treegap, New Hampshire.
There is a spring there, located in the Foster's Wood, with water that will give you immortality. If you are 17 when you drink it, 17 you will be forever.
The Tuck family knows this because 80 years earlier they drank the water and haven't aged a day since. But now 10 year old Winnie Foster has discovered their secret which creates all kinds of problems for everyone involved, This review contains spoilers.
But now 10 year old Winnie Foster has discovered their secret which creates all kinds of problems for everyone involved, and so the story unfolds.
Would you do it if you could? After reading this you will think maybe, but maybe not. It's a thought provoking story with great characters that are easy to love, and the ending has a little bit of a twist.
View all 7 comments. Actual rating, 3. This is a perfectly whimsical read and, had my younger self read this, then I could see this becoming a firm childhood favourite.
As it is, I feel I am too old to really appreciate the fantastic and yet simplistic story. It saddens me to say this, really.
It means that my more mature self has picked plot holes and problems where only beauty and simplicity should reign. This is living proof that growing up is definitely bad for you!
The story was poignant, whimsical and sw Actual rating, 3. The story was poignant, whimsical and sweet and exactly what I was expecting.
The descriptions the novel opened with transported me into the world and I found this wonderfully eloquent for a book aimed at a younger audience. I also fell in love with the characters.
Our protagonist, Winnie, and the entire Tuck family feel warm and welcoming to the reader and I felt a fuzzy feeling inside whilst reading this!
My problems with the novel were really only minor inconsistencies, and yet they jarred with my understanding and enjoyment of the novel.
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Absolut ist mit Ihnen einverstanden. Ich denke, dass es die ausgezeichnete Idee ist.