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Back at home she quickly came up with a title— The Forty-ninth Magician —and asked her husband Sam to write a story to go with it.

She created pen-and-ink pictures for the project and it sold to Pantheon, acquired by a young editor named Michael di Capua, who published the book in It was urging from di Capua that convinced Babbitt to start writing her own prose. Her first full-fledged effort became The Search for Delicious , which was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in Next came Kneeknock Rise in , which was named a Newbery Honor book. The novel features a fantastical woodland freshwater spring that grants eternal life.

But I wrote Tuck to help Lucy understand what life is all about—that we all get born and we all have to die. I wanted to be sure Lucy would not grow up scared. The subject matter—is living forever a good thing?

The Something , a picture book for young readers, came in between, and the author freely admits that it grew out of her healthy distaste for the dark. Since that time, Natalie Babbitt has illustrated five books for Valerie Worth. Four of them are poetry books and have been published together in a paperback edition, All the Small Poems.

The story of a man who never knows he has a twin brother, it is the ironic and moving depiction of a life ruled by an inexplicable sense of loss. Making pictures has always seemed more appropriate. But never mind—she is not complaining. She is still working with Michael di Capua. After all, its founder and president, Mary Brigid Barrett, although a good deal younger, was also born and raised in Ohio.

Her next story, about a man searching for the perfect definition of "delicious," required that she move into prose. She soon developed a taste for words as sharp as that of her characters, saying: "There's always one best word, if you listen for it. Since then she has continued to write and illustrate and also collaborate with other authors. Natalie Babbitt concentrated on art while she was growing up, but started to write so she could illustrate her own stories.