Tuck Everlasting is an American children's novel about immortality written by Natalie Babbitt and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 1975.

In 1880, 10 year-old Winifred "Winnie" Foster, who lives at the edge of the American village of Treegap, thinks about running away from her overbearing family.

That evening, Jesse proposes that after Winnie turns seventeen, she drink from the spring and live eternally with him.

The man in the yellow suit steals the Tucks' horse and rides to the Fosters' home.

He tells them that the Tucks have kidnapped Winnie and promises to rescue her in exchange for the Fosters' wood.

Two nights ago, the man had heard the same tune coming from the Fosters' wood, where Mae had played it on her music box.

The man in the yellow suit offers to pay the Tucks to publicly demonstrate their invincibility.

In town, Angus finds Winnie's grave in a local cemetery revealing that she died in 1948 at the age of 78 and was married with grandchildren.

Based on a 2007 online poll, the National Education Association listed it as one of its "Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children.

"[5] It was ranked number 16 among the "Top 100 Chapter Books" of all time in a 2012 survey published by School Library Journal.

The second, by Disney in 2002, was directed by Jay Russell and starred Alexis Bledel as Winnie, Jonathan Jackson as Jesse, William Hurt as Angus, Sissy Spacek as Mae, and Ben Kingsley as the man in the yellow suit.

It received mixed but generally favorable reviews and currently (May 2022) holds a 60% rating at Rotten Tomatoes.

[9] It grossed a little over $19 million at the domestic box office and was not widely released in foreign territories.

It was produced at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, in January and February 2015, directed and choreographed by Casey Nicholaw.

[10][11] The musical began previews on Broadway, on March 31, 2016, at the Broadhurst Theatre, opening on April 26, 2016, and closing a month later, on May 29.

Carolee Carmello and Andrew Keenan-Bolger played Mae and Jesse, with Robert Lenzi (Miles), Michael Park (Angus), Terrence Mann (Man in the Yellow Suit), Fred Applegate (Constable Joe), Michael Wartella (Hugo), Valerie Wright (Betsy Foster), and Sarah Charles Lewis as Winnie.