On August 1, I will begin what I plan to make an annual tradition. I’ll begin a deep dive into Natalie Babbitt’s Tuck Everlasting. Tuck Everlasting is a Celebration of Time–Time as it relates to the Seasons and the Seasons of Life–and TIme as it relates to the clock. Most people are deeply aware of…
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Tuck Everlasting – Chapter 5 – Winnie’s First Venture into the Wood – Read to Learn about Mankind’s Connection to Trees, Nature Writing, Description, and Creating Characters – Jesse Tuck
Chapter 5 takes place the morning after Winnie, her grandmother, and the man in the yellow suit heard the twinkling sound coming from the Wood. “Winnie woke early next morning. The sun was only just opening its own eye on the eastern horizon and the cottage was full of silence.” Babbitt, Tuck, pg. 22 Winnie…
Tuck Everlasting Chapter 1 – Capturing the Essence of the Spiritual in Nature: A Lesson in Descriptive Writing – Read to Learn to Write
Chapter 1 of Tuck Everlasting contrasts the eternal, perfect freedom of nature, as opposed to the rigid, confined existence outside of nature–specifically to that in the Foster’s Home in Treegap, the town at the edge of the Wood or Nature. “The road that led to Treegap had been trod out long before by a herd…
Tuck Everlasting – Prologue
Prologue “The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning. The weeks that come before are only a climb from balmy spring, and those that follow a drop to the chill of…
The Opening of the Movie Tuck Everlasting Was Filmed at Hawksbill Crag in the Ozark Mountains
I love everything about Tuck Everlasting. I love the novel. I love the writing style of the novel. I love the magic that is captured in that novel, and beyond that, I love how Walt Disney transformed Babbit’s words into a movie version of that novel. For a few years, I lived in the Ozark…
Jacki Kellum Looks at the Book Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
Many of us write, but few of us create literature. Natalie Babbitt’s Tuck Everlasting is literature. She had created literature before Chapter 1 of the book, Within a few words, Babbitt writes volumes–in the Prologue. Within a few words, Tuck Everlasting had become more than a mere spattering of words. Natalie Babbitt said the following…