"Daily life is really very dull," author Natalie Babbitt told Amy Meeker in a Publishers Weekly interview. "I don't care whether you're rich or poor--you do the same things over and over again, and you need something to speculate about, some kind of marvel." For Babbitt and her readers such marvels are served up in her novels, picture books, and story collections which have "made a special place for [Babbitt] in the world of children's literature," according to a contributor for St. James Guide to Children's Writers. Though picture books were her first passion and one to which she continues to return, Babbitt is best known for her award-winning novels, including The Search for Delicious, Kneeknock Rise, Goody Hall, The Eyes of the Amaryllis, Herbert Rowbarge, and the ever-popular Tuck Everlasting. Published in 1975, Tuck Everlasting was dubbed a "modern classic" by Kit Breckenridge in School Library Journal and earned its author/illustrator the Christopher Award for juvenile fiction.
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