Natalie Babbitt

Natalie Babbit was a classics, fantasy and children’s book author and illustrator of children’s fiction best known for writing “Tuck Everlasting.” The author was born in Dayton Ohio and as a child, she first thought she wanted to grow up and become a pirate. By the time she was in the second grade, she was thinking that she wanted to become a librarian. Thinking back to that time, she believes she would have been a good librarian as she loved reading while she would have been a terrible pirate as she disliked heavy exercise.

The best place to start is the Small Poems series, the earliest of Natalie Babbitt's multi-book series: it opens with Small Poems (1972) and runs to 6 books across 1972–1994, ending with All the Small Poems and Fourteen More (1994).

Natalie Babbitt has 28 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1967 and 2025. 6 of them belong to 1 named series — the largest being the Small Poems series with 6 books — and 22 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.

Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Natalie Babbitt's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Small Poems (1972–1994, 6 books).

This guide splits Natalie Babbitt's 28 books into 1 named series and 22 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Small Poems (6 books, 1972–1994).