Jack Plank Tells Tales, Natalie Babbitt
Jack Plank Tells Tales, Natalie Babbitt
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Jack Plank Tells Tales

Author: Natalie Babbitt

Narrator: John H. Mayer

Unabridged: 2 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/12/2008


Synopsis

Yes, Jack Plank started out to be a pirate. His shipmates all liked him, and their ship, the Avarice, was certainly very beautiful. But after a while it was clear that he wasn’t much good at plundering. He just didn’t have the knack for it. So what to do?
Jack did the only thing he could do—he went ashore to look for another line of work. The town was called Salt-wash, on the coast of the Caribbean Sea, and he had a lot of helpful advice from the people in Mrs. DelFresno’s boardinghouse. Somehow, though, each career he looked into seemed to have something wrong with it. And every night at dinner in the boardinghouse he tried to explain why. For who would want to work where there might be a troll, or the danger of getting a crab caught in your beard? Or what about a music-loving crocodile? There were other things, too, that ran against every suggestion and took the wind out of his sails. 
At last, Jack decided he wouldn’t be good at anything onshore and would have to go back to sea, pirate or not. But sometimes, as you probably know already, things work out very nicely when you least expect it.

About Natalie Babbitt

Artist and writer Natalie Babbitt (1932–2016) is the award-winning author of the modern classic Tuck Everlasting and many other brilliantly original books for young people. As the mother of three small children, she began her career in 1966 by illustrating The Forty-Ninth Magician, written by her husband, Samuel Babbitt. She soon tried her own hand at writing, publishing two picture books in verse. Her first novel, The Search for Delicious, was published in 1969 and established her reputation for creating magical tales with profound meaning. Kneeknock Rise earned Babbitt a Newbery Honor in 1971, and she went on to write—and often illustrate—many more picture books, story collections, and novels. She also illustrated the five volumes in the Small Poems series by Valerie Worth. In 2002, Tuck Everlasting was adapted into a major motion picture, and in 2016 a musical version premiered on Broadway. Born and raised in Ohio, Natalie Babbitt lived her adult life in the Northeast.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Carrie on February 19, 2021

I have a collection of Natalie Babbitt books on my shelf that I've been slowly working through. She is, of course, the author of Tuck Everlasting which is wonderful. A perhaps slightly lesser known work, and my personal favorite, is The Search for the Delicious. At any rate, I had an hour to myself......more

Goodreads review by Rachel Joy on November 13, 2018

Babbitt never lets you down as a storyteller! This is a fun little book with tall tales of the sea and pirates.......more

Goodreads review by belisa on February 08, 2019

babbitt'i seviyorum, yazdıkları yetişkinler için de okunabilir olan çok fazla çocuk yazarı yok.........more