Fountain of Youth

Tuck Everlasting

A terrible and beautiful work, a story with magical realism. Natalie Babbitt's "Tuck Everlasting" tells the magical and enchanting story of a precocious little girl named Winnie. Winnie longs for a life free from her mother's control, and when she gets lost in the woods not far from home, she stumbles upon a boy who is completely different from anyone she's ever met before—Tuck. She discovers the secret of the Tuck family's eternal life. The story becomes complicated as Winnie is tracked, "kidnapped," and captured...
Although Winnie is not yet eleven, she doesn't believe in elves or fairy tales, so how could she believe the Tuck family's story? Tuck, Mae, Jesse, and Miles, after drinking from a spring in the woods, found time standing still for them; in other words, they became immortal.
But it's true! The spring is under an ash tree in Winnie's family woods; but except for Jesse, the Tuck family tries desperately to prevent Winnie from drinking from it. The melancholic and sorrowful Tuck tells her: if a person only lives but doesn't die, they are no different from a roadside stone, and cannot be considered truly living. Only the perpetually seventeen-year-old Jesse eagerly hopes Winnie will drink from the spring in a few years and then come find him...
Winnie keeps silent. The greed and sinister nature of the mysterious man in the yellow suit make her realize that once more people know the secret of the spring, the world will be ruined. Of course, Winnie knows that she can drink from it at any time, or never drink from it until her death. How will she ultimately choose?
Excellent children's literature and fairy tales are the "fountains of youth" for life, and the "fountains of youth" for nations and the world. Giving this "fountain of youth" to children means giving it to the entire nation, and to the entire future world.
——Mei Zihan, famous children's literature writer
The "Tuck Everlasting Library" advocates this view of reading: our and our children's literary reading should be quiet and beautiful reading, natural and life-oriented reading, and pure spiritual reading. Through reading, we discover the world, experience life, absorb thoughts and culture. More importantly, we should use it to break free from constraints and transcend mediocrity, awaken passion and dreams, enjoy the joy of life, let love bloom forever like spring flowers, and let our hearts dance freely and sing with abandon.
——Chen Hui, Professor at Beijing Normal University
A thrilling and beautiful novel, impossible to put down, and unforgettable once finished.
——The New York Times
Lightly touching on serious themes, making this story, like the Tuck family who drank from the magic spring, eternally ageless.
——The Chicago Sun-Times

2013-01-01

二十一世纪出版社

Macmillan Century Children's Books

135

9787539182940