Tuck

I am really surprised how much I'm enjoying Tuck Everlasting. It is beautifully written. Just reading the first few pages where Winnie is beginning a relationship with the still and steady frog, the beauty of the character of this sort of long-suffering frog called to mind the turtle described in the first pages of Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath. The frog and the turtle being these sort of wise and all-knowing characters. They're animalness seperating them from the triviality of the human condition, but bearing the burden of themselves all the same. Beautiful