Natalie Babbitt
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Natalie Babbitt
Natalie Babbitt is an American writer and illustrator of children's books. For her contributions as a children's writer, she was U.S. nominee for the biennial international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1982...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionChildren's Author
Date of Birth28 July 1932
CityDayton, OH
CountryUnited States of America
Natalie Babbitt quotes about
life-and-love live-life forever
Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live.
enough eternity hours
For some, time passes slowly. An hour can seem like an eternity. For others, there was never enough. For Jesse Tuck, it didn't exist.
fear-of-death
Don't fear death, fear the un-lived life
wrote
My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.