“I stopped fretting”: Roger Sutton, “Bring Out Your Dead,” Horn Book Magazine, vol. 77, no. 4 (July/August 2001), 387–388.
“Earth should remain”: Michael D. Lemonick, “The End,” Time, vol. 157, no. 25 (June 25, 2001), 48.
We’re All Mad Here
Zena Sutherland Lecture, Chicago Public Library, 2004. Reprinted in the Horn Book Magazine, vol. 80, no. 5 (September/October 2004), 507–518.
Illustration Credits: Unless otherwise noted, photographs and other material provided courtesy of the Estate of Natalie Babbitt. here: Jesse Zellner. here, here, here, here: Archives & Special Collections, Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, University of Connecticut. here: copyright © 1983 by Thomas Victor. here, here: Farrar Straus Giroux. here: William Sauro / The New York Times / Redux. here: Michael di Capua. here: The Horn Book Magazine.
Books by Natalie Babbitt
AS AUTHOR
Tuck Everlasting (1975)
The Eyes of the Amaryllis (1977)
Herbert Rowbarge (1982)
The Moon Over High Street (2011)
AS AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR
Dick Foote and the Shark (1967)
Phoebe’s Revolt (1968)
The Search for Delicious (1969)
Kneeknock Rise (1970)
The Something (1970)
Goody Hall (1971)
The Devil’s Storybook (1974)
The Devil’s Other Storybook (1987)
Nellie: A Cat on Her Own (1989)
Bub: Or the Very Best Thing (1994)
Elsie Times Eight (2001)
Jack Plank Tells Tales (2007)
AS ILLUSTRATOR
The Forty-Ninth Magician by Samuel Babbitt (1966)
Small Poems by Valerie Worth (1972)
Still More Small Poems by Valerie Worth (1978)
Curlicues: The Fortunes of Two Pug Dogs by Valerie Worth (1980)
Small Poems Again by Valerie Worth (1986)
All the Small Poems and Fourteen More by Valerie Worth (1994)
Peacock and Other Poems by Valerie Worth (2002)
About the Author
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, The Search 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. You can sign up for email update here.
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Contents
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Introduction by Katherine Applegate
Happy Endings? Of Course, and Also Joy (1970)
The Child as Chimpanzee (1971)
The Great American Novel for Children—and Why Not? (1973)
You Must Go Home Again (1978)
Saying What You Think (1981)
The Way We Were—and Weren’t (1985)
Something Has to Happen (1985)
The Roots—and Branches—of Fantasy (1986)
Easy Does It (1986)
Metamorphosis (1987)
A Question from Justine (1987)
The Purpose of Literature—and Who Cares? (1989)
Darkness and Light (1990)
Protecting Children’s Literature (1990)
Beacons of Light (1993)
Finding Paths (1999)
New World, No World (2001)
We’re All Mad Here (2004)
Notes
Books by Natalie Babbitt
About the Author
Copyright
Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers
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Copyright © 2018 by the Estate of Natalie Babbitt
Introduction copyright © 2018 by Katherine Applegate
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Names: Babbitt, Natalie, author.
Title: Barking with the big dogs: on writing and reading books for children / Natalie Babbitt.
Description: First edition. | New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, [2018] | “A collection of essays and speeches by Natalie Babbitt”
Identifiers: LCCN 2018002807 | ISBN 9780374310400 (hardcover)
Subjects: LCSH: Children’s literature, American—History and criticism. | Children—Books and reading.
Classification: LCC PS490 B43 2018 | DDC 810.9/9282—dc23
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