书名：Tuck Everlasting 不老泉
难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数770L
作者：Natalie Babbitt
出版社名称：Square Fish
出版时间：2007
语种：英文 
ISBN：9780312369811
商品尺寸：13.6 x 1.1 x 19.9 cm
包装：平装
页数：160（以实物为准）

★麦克米伦世纪大奖小说；
★美国教育协会推荐的100本童书之一，美国图书馆协会童书奖获奖作品；
★世界上没有不老泉，但美好的童年、对童年的珍惜，就是人类生命的不老泉！

娜塔莉·巴比特（Natalie Babbitt）编著的Tuck Everlasting《不老泉》，讲述的是一位早熟的小女孩温妮梦幻般地被魔法所迷惑的故事。温妮向往着一种不受母亲控制的生活，当她在离家不远的森林里迷路的时候，她偶然碰上了一位与她以前所遇见过的男孩感觉完全不一样的少年——塔克，并发现了塔克一家的获得永恒生命的秘密。随着温妮的被跟踪、遭“绑架”、被捕，故事开始复杂起来……
本书曾两度被翻拍成同名电影，受到观众的喜爱和认可。

媒体评论：
“一部惊悚而美丽的小说，读来放不下，放下忘不了。”——《纽约时报》

“轻巧地触碰严肃的题旨，让这个故事像喝过神奇泉水的塔克这家人一样，永恒不老。”——《芝加哥太阳报》

Review
“Rarely does one find a book with such prose. Flawless in both style and structure, it is rich in imagery and punctuated with light fillips of humor.”―The Horn Book Magazine

“Beautiful and descriptive language is the strength of Babbitt's fantasy about Winnie and her encounter with the Tuck family, who cause her--and readers--to ponder an important question: What would it be like to live forever?”―Booklist

“Probably the best work of our best children's novelist.”―Harper's

“A fearsome and beautifully written book that can't be put down or forgotten.” ―The New Yorker

“Exciting and excellently written.”―The New York Times Book Review

“Natalie Babbitt's great skill is spinning fantasy with the lilt and sense of timeless wisdom of the old fairy tales. . . . It lingers on, haunting your waking hours, making you ponder.”―The Boston Globe

“With its serious intentions and light touch the story is, like the Tucks, timeless.”―Chicago Sun-Times

“This book is as shapely, crisp, sweet, and tangy as a summer-ripe pear.”―Entertainment Weekly

温妮虽然还不到十一岁，但她不相信精灵、不相信童话，又怎会相信塔克一家的故事？塔克、梅、杰西、迈尔斯，因为喝了林中一处的泉水，时间从此停滞不前，也就是说，他们长生不老。

可这是事实！那眼泉水就在温妮家林子里的一棵白腊树下；但除了杰西，塔克一家极力阻止温妮去喝它。忧郁而悲伤的塔克告诉她：人如果只活不死，就和路边的石头没有什么两样，不能算真正地活着。只有永远十七岁的杰西，热切地希望温妮过几年就去喝那泉水，然后去找他……

温妮三缄其口，神秘黄衣人的贪婪和阴险让她明白，一旦更多人知道泉水的秘密，这个世界就毁了。当然，温妮是知道的，她可以随时去喝，也可以至死不喝，她会如何选择呢？
The classic novel about a young girl who stumbles upon a family's stunning secret

What if you could live forever?

Is eternal life a blessing or a curse? That is what young Winnie Foster must decide when she discovers a spring on her family’s property whose waters grant immortality. Members of the Tuck family, having drunk from the spring, tell Winnie of their experiences watching life go by and never growing older.

But then Winnie must decide whether or not to keep the Tucks’ secret―and whether or not to join them on their never-ending journey.

娜塔莉·巴比特，儿童文学作家和插图画家。出生于美国俄亥俄州。从小喜欢阅读童话和神话，并且受母亲的影响热爱绘画。曾在史密斯大学学习美术。婚后她为丈夫创作的童书《第四十九位魔术师》绘制插画，受到编辑鼓励而开始自写自画并尝试写小说，一写就是四十年。
1975年出版的《不老泉》让她备受赞赏，《纽约时报》评价她“毫无疑问是我们一位有天赋和抱负的儿童文学作家”。这部经典小说获奖无数，并于1981年和2002年两度被改编成电影。
1971年，小说《尼瑙克山探险》获得纽伯瑞儿童文学银奖。
Artist and writer Natalie Babbitt (1932–2016) is the award-winning author of the modern classic Tuck Everlasting and many other brilliantly original books for young people. As the mother of three small children, she began her career in 1966 by illustrating The Forty-Ninth Magician, written by her husband, Samuel Babbitt. She soon tried her own hand at writing, publishing two picture books in verse. Her first novel, TheSearch for Delicious, was published in 1969 and established her reputation for creating magical tales with profound meaning. Kneeknock Rise earned Babbitt a Newbery Honor in 1971, and she went on to write―and often illustrate―many more picture books, story collections,and novels. She also illustrated the five volumes in the Small Poems series by Valerie Worth. In 2002, Tuck Everlasting was adapted into a major motion picture, and in 2016 a musical version premiered on Broadway. Born and raised in Ohio, Natalie Babbitt lived her adult life in the Northeast.