Natalie Babbitt, author of the beloved children’s novel Tuck Everlasting, has died after battling cancer. She was 84. Babbitt, who also was an illustrator, had been diagnosed with lung cancer ...

In Natalie Babbitt's celebrated classic, a young girl stumbles upon a secret spring and the family the spring has given eternal life to. Babbitt says she wrote the book to help kids understand death.

I was in the sixth grade, existing in that cruel, pre-adolescent middle school space the first time I read “Tuck Everlasting.” The young adult novel was required reading in English class, and once ...

Natalie Babbitt, a celebrated author of children’s literature whose 1975 novel “Tuck Everlasting” led millions of young readers on an exploration, both fantastical and philosophical, of what ...

Yet last spring, when I picked up Natalie Babbitt’s novel “ Tuck Everlasting ” to read to my 7-year-old son, I realized it was this book that first made me address my mortality, some 30 ...

Natalie Babbitt, author of the beloved children’s novel Tuck Everlasting, has died after battling cancer. She was 84.

Natalie Babbitt, the author of “Tuck Everlasting,” died Monday at the age of 84. The children’s book author and illustrator was recently diagnosed with lung cancer. She died at he… ...

Beloved children's author Natalie Babbitt, perhaps best known for her best selling novel TUCK EVERLASTING, passed away at the age of 84 after battling cancer.

HAMDEN, Conn. (AP) — Natalie Babbitt, the author of the beloved children’s novel “Tuck Everlasting,” has died after battling cancer. She was 84 years old.

Natalie Babbitt, the author of children's novel Tuck Everlasting - which was adapted into two films and a Broadway musical - has died at the age of 84.

Natalie Babbitt, author of the beloved children's novel “Tuck Everlasting,” has died after battling cancer. She was 84 years old.