![]() ![]() It was almost too quaint and folksy for my tastes. He’s one of the most interesting characters, because for much of the book, the reader doesn’t know who he’s working for, whether he’s completely evil or not, and why exactly he’s there.įirst published in 1975, the story of Tuck Everlasting is still a great one, and very entertaining. In fact, the only things I did remember were the spring, the character of Winnie Foster, and the mysterious man in the yellow suit who comes one day to the Foster’s touch-me-not cottage inquiring after a certain family by the name of Tuck. ![]() I was read this book in elementary school, and while I didn’t remember much about it, I remember enjoying it. ![]() Complications arise when Winnie is followed by a stranger who wants to market the spring water for a fortune.” When ten-year-old Winnie Foster stumbles on their secret, the Tucks take her home and explain why living forever at one age is less a blessing that it might seem. *SPOILER CONTAINING REVIEW* “ Doomed to-or bles sed with-eternal life after drinking from a magic spring, the Tuck family wanders about trying to live as inconspicuously and comfortably as they can. It wandered along in curves and easy angles, swayed off and up in a pleasant tangent to the top of a small hill, ambled down again between fringes of bee-hung clover, and then cut sidewise across a meadow. The road that led to Treegap had been trod out long before by a herd of cows who were, to say the least, relaxed. ![]()
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