"Rough and Soft, Both at Once": Winnie Foster's Initiation in "Tuck Everlasting.".

Hartvigsen, M. Kip|Hartvigsen, Christen Brog

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Publication Date: 1987

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"Rough and Soft, Both at Once": Winnie Foster's Initiation in "Tuck Everlasting."

Hartvigsen, M. Kip; Hartvigsen, Christen Brog

Children's Literature in Education, v18 n3 p176-83 Fall 1987

Suggests that Natalie Babbitt's "Tuck Everlasting" narrows the gap between "untroubled, sterile" children's literature and adult literature by avoiding simple dichotomies while presenting life as a complex mixture of good and evil, containing perplexing moral dilemmas. (JC)

Descriptors: Childhood Interests, Childrens Literature, Codes of Ethics, Imagery, Literary Criticism, Literature Appreciation, Moral Issues, Reading Materials, Recreational Reading, Values

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers

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Language: English

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