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Ohio, to Lincoln School on Central Avenue, to live through fifth grade again. And again and again.
What’s the best advice you have ever received about writing?
No one single thing. Too many good things to list.
What do you want readers to remember about your books?
The questions without answers.
What would you do if you ever stopped writing?
Spend all my time doing word puzzles and games, and practicing the good old songs on my piano.
What do you like best about yourself?
That I can draw, and play the good old songs on my piano.
What is your worst habit?
Always expecting things to be perfect.
What is your best habit?
Trying to make things as perfect as I can.
What do you consider to be your greatest accomplishment?
Right now, it’s a picture for a new book that hasn’t even been published yet. It’s a picture of a man in a washtub, floating on the ocean in a rainstorm. I’m really proud of that picture.
Where in the world do you feel most at home?
That’s a hard question. My family moved away from Middletown, Ohio (see the question/answer about time travel), when I was in the middle of sixth grade, and we never went back. Even after all these years, though, Middletown is the place I think of when I think about “home.” I’ve lived in a lot of different places, though, and liked them all, so I don’t feel sorry for myself. It’s just that the word “home” has its own kind of special meaning.
What do you wish you could do better?
Everything. Cook, write, play the piano, everything.
What would your readers be most surprised to learn about you?
Maybe that I believe that writing books is a long way from being important. The most important thing anyone can do is be a teacher. As for those of us who write books, I often think we should all stop for fifty years. There are so many wonderful books to read, and not enough time to get around to all of them. But we writers just keep cranking them out. All we can hope for is that readers will find at least a little time for them, anyway.
Books by Natalie Babbitt
Dick Foote and the Shark
Phoebe’s Revolt
The Search for Delicious
Kneeknock Rise
The Something
Goody Hall
The Devil’s Storybook
Tuck Everlasting
The Eyes of the Amaryllis
Herbert Rowbarge
The Devil’s Other Storybook
Nellie: A Cat on Her Own
Bub, or The Very Best Thing
Ouch!
Elsie Times Eight
A note to the reader:
The name “Megrimum” is pronounced Meg -ra-mum.
An Imprint of Macmillan
KNEEKNOCK RISE. Copyright © 1970 by Natalie Babbitt. All rights reserved. For information, address Square Fish, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010 .
Square Fish and the Square Fish logo are trademarks of Macmillan and are used by Farrar, Straus and Giroux under license from Macmillan .
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Available
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 79-105622
ISBN: 978-0-312-37009-1
Originally published in the United States by Farrar, Straus and Giroux Square Fish logo designed by Filomena Tuosto
www.squarefishbooks.com
What’s the best advice you have ever received about writing?
No one single thing. Too many good things to list.
What do you want readers to remember about your books?
The questions without answers.
What would you do if you ever stopped writing?
Spend all my time doing word puzzles and games, and practicing the good old songs on my piano.
What do you like best about yourself?
That I can draw, and play the good old songs on my piano.
What is your worst habit?
Always expecting things to be perfect.
What is your best habit?
Trying to make things as perfect as I can.
What do you consider to be your greatest accomplishment?
Right now, it’s a picture for a new book that hasn’t even been published yet. It’s a picture of a man in a washtub, floating on the ocean in a rainstorm. I’m really proud of that picture.
Where in the world do you feel most at home?
That’s a hard question. My family moved away from Middletown, Ohio (see the question/answer about time travel), when I was in the middle of sixth grade, and we never went back. Even after all these years, though, Middletown is the place I think of when I think about “home.” I’ve lived in a lot of different places, though, and liked them all, so I don’t feel sorry for myself. It’s just that the word “home” has its own kind of special meaning.
What do you wish you could do better?
Everything. Cook, write, play the piano, everything.
What would your readers be most surprised to learn about you?
Maybe that I believe that writing books is a long way from being important. The most important thing anyone can do is be a teacher. As for those of us who write books, I often think we should all stop for fifty years. There are so many wonderful books to read, and not enough time to get around to all of them. But we writers just keep cranking them out. All we can hope for is that readers will find at least a little time for them, anyway.
Books by Natalie Babbitt
Dick Foote and the Shark
Phoebe’s Revolt
The Search for Delicious
Kneeknock Rise
The Something
Goody Hall
The Devil’s Storybook
Tuck Everlasting
The Eyes of the Amaryllis
Herbert Rowbarge
The Devil’s Other Storybook
Nellie: A Cat on Her Own
Bub, or The Very Best Thing
Ouch!
Elsie Times Eight
A note to the reader:
The name “Megrimum” is pronounced Meg -ra-mum.
An Imprint of Macmillan
KNEEKNOCK RISE. Copyright © 1970 by Natalie Babbitt. All rights reserved. For information, address Square Fish, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010 .
Square Fish and the Square Fish logo are trademarks of Macmillan and are used by Farrar, Straus and Giroux under license from Macmillan .
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Available
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 79-105622
ISBN: 978-0-312-37009-1
Originally published in the United States by Farrar, Straus and Giroux Square Fish logo designed by Filomena Tuosto
www.squarefishbooks.com
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