Kneeknock Rise

Kneeknock Rise
Author: Natalie Babbitt
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Total Pages: 60
Release: 2010-04-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1429955120

From the moment young Egan arrives in Instep for the annual fair, he is entranced by the fable surrounding the misty peak of Kneeknock Rise: On stormy nights when the rain drives harsh and cold, an undiscovered creature raises its voice and moans. Nobody knows what it is—nobody has ever dared to try to find out and come back again. Before long, Egan is climbing the Rise to find an answer to the mystery. Kneeknock Rise is a 1971 Newbery Honor Book.

The Search for Delicious

The Search for Delicious
Author: Natalie Babbitt
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Total Pages: 87
Release: 2010-04-15
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1429954949

Natalie Babbit's memorable first novel, The Search for Delicious, about a boy who nearly causes a civil war in the kingdom all because of his work on the royal dictionary. Gaylen, the King's messenger, a skinny boy of twelve, is off to poll the kingdom, traveling from town to farmstead to town on his horse, Marrow. At first it is merely a question of disagreement at the royal castle over which food should stand for Delicious in the new dictionary. But soon it seems that the search for Delicious had better succeed if civil war is to be avoided. Gaylen's quest leads him to the woldweller, a wise, 900-year-old creature who lives alone at the precise center of the forest; to Canto, the minstrel who sings him an old song about a mermaid child and who gives him a peculiar good-luck charm; to the underground domain of the dwarfs; and finally to Ardis who might save the kingdom from havoc. The Search for Delicious is a 1969 New York Times Book Review Notable Children's Book of the Year. Featured in 4 episodes as part of the Jackanory BBC children's television series.

The Eyes of the Amaryllis

The Eyes of the Amaryllis
Author: Natalie Babbitt
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Total Pages: 150
Release: 2010-10-12
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1429955171

Experience love and loss in this enchanting sea mystery from Natalie Babbitt, The Eyes of the Amaryllis, the basis for the 1982 movie adaption of the same name. When the brig Amaryllis was swallowed in a hurricane, the captain and all the crew were swallowed, too. For thirty years the captain's widow, Geneva Reade, has waited, certain that her husband will send her a message from the bottom of the sea. But someone else is waiting, too, and watching her, a man called Seward. Into this haunted situation comes Jenny, the widow's granddaughter. The three of them, Gran, Jenny, and Seward, are drawn into a kind of deadly game with one another and with the sea, a game that only the sea knows how to win. The Eyes of the Amaryllis is a 1977 New York Times Book Review Notable Children's Book of the Year.

Barking with the Big Dogs

Barking with the Big Dogs
Author: Natalie Babbitt
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2018-11-20
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0374310416

In this collection of essays and speeches written over the course of four decades, beloved storyteller Natalie Babbitt explores what it was like to be a “little dog” in the literary world, continually being forced to justify her choice to write books for children—instead of doing something more serious. Babbitt offers incisive commentary on classic children’s books as well as contemporary works, and reveals colorful insights into her own personal creative life. Filled with a voice that rings with truth, wisdom, and humor across the years, the essays gathered in Barking with the Big Dogs exemplify on every page true reverence for children and an endless engagement with the challenge to write the books that shape them.

The Moon Over High Street

The Moon Over High Street
Author: Natalie Babbitt
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 90
Release: 2014-08-26
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0545393027

The new novel by Natalie Babbitt, author of Tuck Everlasting Joe Casimir needed help with the choice he had to make. But how do you choose the person who will help you choose? Mr. Boulderwall, the millionaire, knew exactly what he wanted Joe to choose. And millionaires are experts at making choices. Well, aren't they? But Vinnie, the number-two man down at Sope Electric, didn't much approve of millionaires. He said to Joe, "Listen, kid, all of 'em act like they're the only ones with a ticket to the show!" But he didn't have any real advice to offer. Joe's Gran didn't either, as it turned out, and neither did Aunt Myra.The good advice was there, though. Right across the street. Just waiting right across the street. There are a lot of good things just waiting. You'll see.

The Devil's Storybook

The Devil's Storybook
Author: Natalie Babbitt
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Total Pages: 65
Release: 2010-10-12
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1429955260

The Devil's Storybook is a 1974 New York Times Book Review Notable Children's Book of the Year and a 1975 National Book Award Finalist for Children's Books. An ALA Notable Book Chosen by School Library Journal as one of the Best of the Best Books

Tuck Everlasting

Tuck Everlasting
Author: Natalie Babbitt
Publisher: Bloomsbury Children's Books
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2020-04-02
Genre:
ISBN: 9781526615251

Winnie Foster is in the woods, thinking of running away from home, when she sees a boy drinking from a spring. Winnie wants a drink too, but before she can take a sip, she is kidnapped by the boy, Jesse Tuck, and his family. She learns that the Tuck family are blessed with o or doomed to o eternal life since drinking from the spring, and they wander from place to place trying to live as inconspicuously as they can. Now Winnie knows their secret. But what does immortality really mean? And can the Tucks help her understand before it's too late? A beautiful paperback edition of the unforgettable classic of children's writing about what it truly means to live forever. Featuring illustrations by Melissa Castrillon.

The Devil's Other Storybook

The Devil's Other Storybook
Author: Natalie Babbitt
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Total Pages: 56
Release: 2010-10-12
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1429955457

The Devil is back, just as full of vanity and other human feelings as he was in Natalie Babbitt's first collection, The Devil's Storybook.

London Art Chase

London Art Chase
Author: Natalie Grant
Publisher: Zonderkidz
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2016-01-26
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0310752698

In London Art Chase, the first title in the new Faithgirlz Glimmer Girls series, readers meet 10-year-old twins Mia and Maddie and their adorable little sister, LuLu. All the girls are smart, sassy, and unique in their own way, each with a special little something that adds to great family adventures. There is pure excitement in the family as the group heads to London for the first time to watch mom, famous singer Gloria Glimmer, perform. But on a day trip to the National Gallery, Maddie witnesses what she believes to be an art theft and takes her sisters and their beloved and wacky nanny Miss Julia, on a wild and crazy adventure as they follow the supposed thief to his lair. Will the Glimmer Girls save the day? And will Maddie find what makes her shine?

Jack Plank Tells Tales

Jack Plank Tells Tales
Author: Natalie Babbitt
Publisher: Michael Di Capua Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780545004978

A young man starts out to be a pirate, but just doesn't seem to have the knack for it and seeks a new career.