Natalie Babbitt (1932–2016)
Autor(a) de Tuck Everlasting
About the Author
Natalie Babbitt was born Natalie Zane Moore in Dayton, Ohio on July 28, 1932. As a child, she wanted to be an illustrator. She received a bachelor's degree in fine arts from Smith College. She and her husband Sam Babbitt collaborated on a children's book The Forty-Ninth Magician, which was mostrar mais published in 1966. At the urging of her husband and her editor, she decided to write her own prose. Her first book as both author and illustrator was The Search for Delicious, which was published in 1969. Her novels included Goody Hall, The Devil's Storybook, Tuck Everlasting, The Eyes of the Amaryllis, Herbert Rowbarge, and The Moon Over High Street. She wrote and illustrated several picture books including Nellie: A Cat on Her Own; Bub, or, The Very Best Thing; and Elsie Times Eight. Kneeknock Rise was named a 1971 Newbery Honor book. In 2013, she won the inaugural E. B. White Award for achievement in children's literature. Tuck Everlasting was adapted as a Disney feature film in 2002 and made its debut as a Broadway musical in 2016. She also illustrated five books for Valerie Worth. She died of lung cancer on October 31, 2016 at the age of 84. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Image credit: Used by permission of Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Séries
Obras de Natalie Babbitt
Simple Sentences [short fiction] 2 cópias
The Power of Speech 1 exemplar(es)
Set of 12 Newbery Medal/Honor Books (Ramona and Her Father, Kneeknock Rise, Hoot, Princess Academy, Sarah Plain and… (2000) 1 exemplar(es)
The Search for Delicious 1 exemplar(es)
Der Bote des Königs. ( Ab 10 J.). 1 exemplar(es)
Nellie die Mondscheinkatze 1 exemplar(es)
Associated Works
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome padrão
- Babbitt, Natalie
- Nome de batismo
- Babbitt, Natalie Zane
- Outros nomes
- Moore, Natalie Zane (birth)
- Data de nascimento
- 1932-07-28
- Data de falecimento
- 2016-10-31
- Local de enterro
- Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Dayton, Ohio, USA
- Local de falecimento
- Hamden, Connecticut, USA
- Causa da morte
- cancer (lung)
- Locais de residência
- Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Middletown, Ohio, USA
Clinton, New York, USA - Educação
- Smith College (BA ∙ 1954)
- Ocupação
- illustrator
children's book author - Relacionamentos
- Babbitt, Samuel Fisher (spouse)
- Organizações
- National Children's Book and Literacy Alliance (board member)
PEN
Authors League of America
Authors Guild - Premiações
- Children's Literature Festival Award, Keene State College, for the body of her work (1993)
E. B. White Award (2012)
Newbery Honor (1971)
Christopher Award (1975)
Membros
Discussions
fantasy fiction about a young man that never ages but falls in love with a girl that does em Name that Book (Janeiro 2018)
Resenhas
Listas
6th Grade (1)
1970s (1)
Newbery Adjacent (1)
Prêmios
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 31
- Also by
- 21
- Membros
- 21,480
- Popularidade
- #1,005
- Avaliação
- 3.9
- Resenhas
- 651
- ISBNs
- 312
- Idiomas
- 12
- Favorito
- 8
For her revolt, she refuses to get out of the bathtub once her mom throws a special party in her honor (which includes a dancing bear!!!).
I couldn't help but laugh because the picture of her sitting grumpily in the tub looks exactly like MY Phoebe who doesn't like getting her hair washed.