Tuck Everlasting

Tuck Everlasting  by Natalie Babbitt          Audio Book:  3hrs. 31 mins     Hardback Book:  208 pages                

I liked this book.    The story was a good one and the characters told it very well.   Young Winnie Foster, a ten year old who isn't sure about life just yet, but decides she might just run away gains more of an adventure than she was anticipating.     On her journey away from home she runs into first the sons then the parents of a family named Tuck.    They seem odd, eccentric and a bit off the social norm, but, Winnie likes that about them.   When she attempts to get a drink from a ground water source she is first distracted by the older boy then told not to drink from that particular water source.at

 all.   She sees it as a do as I say not as I do moment because she clearly saw the boy drinking the water yet, he doesn't want her to.   The reason is explained and she learns more and more about the Tuck family finding that the truth is stranger than fiction. A mysterious brightly dressed stalker begins nosing around.   Winnie's parents are beside themselves with grief and worry at her departure when the strange brightly dressed man tells 

them he was witness to her kidnapping by a family who stole her and took her away with them in a wagon.  A good story that I do not want to spoil for anyone.    It is a short, good, read and I think children on up through adults will all enjoy the story.    This is one of those books to treat yourself with.   Very enjoyable,   I highly recommend it.

- Shirley J