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Oct 11, 2002 · "Tuck Everlasting" is based on a novel well known to middle school students but not to me, about a romance between two teenagers, one of whom is 104. It contains a lesson: "Do not fear death--but rather the unlived life." Wise indeed. But wiser still was Socrates, who said, "The unexamined life is not worth living." The immortals in "Tuck Everlasting" have not examined their endless lives, and ...
Oct 11, 2002 · Feb 28, 2020 Full Review Joel Siegel Good Morning America Tuck Everlasting is a beautifully told fable with a kind of Halloween twist. Rated: B+ Jan 4, 2018 Full Review Felix ...
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- Alexis Bledel
What you will—and won't—find in this book. Parents need to know that the sparkling nature descriptions in Tuck Everlasting are great introductions to lyrical prose. The main character uses her ingenuity to rescue a friend from a risky situation. Kids who stick with the novel through the (intentionally) sleepy opening are rewarded with a ...
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Jan 1, 1975 · Tuck Everlasting. Natalie Babbitt. 3.90. 275,494 ratings11,963 reviews. Doomed to - or blessed with - eternal life after drinking from a magic spring, the Tuck family wanders about trying to live as inconspicuously and comfortably as they can. When ten-year-old Winnie Foster stumbles on their secret, the Tucks take her home and explain why ...
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Our review: Parents say ( 8 ): Kids say ( 33 ): Disney has made a lovely film version of the book Tuck Everlasting, which is a perennial middle-school favorite. It deals thoughtfully with themes of time, identity, and humanity. In the Tuck home, there is no time. Or, rather, there's too much time, which turns out to be pretty much the same ...
- Alexis Bledel, Jonathan Jackson, William Hurt
- Jay Russell
- Walt Disney Pictures
Full Review | Feb 28, 2020. Tuck Everlasting is a beautifully told fable with a kind of Halloween twist. Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Jan 4, 2018. Lovely version of the favorite middle ...
A lovely film. hrd1963 26 April 2003. "Tuck Everlasting", based on the classic book by Natalie Babbitt, is a lovely film with a simple message at its core: "it's not death you need to fear," William Hurt notes to Alexis Bledel midway through the movie, "but the unfulfilled life." The cast is marvelous.