Herbert Rowbarge Author:Natalie Babbitt from Anne Tyler in The New York Times Book Review — "Someone ought to start spreading the word that Natalie Babbitt is not only a children's writer. Granted, her books have the firmly defined storyline that children love. But the style is so fine and subtle that grownups too will take real pleasure... Her new novel, Herbert Rowbarge, has in commo... more »n with many of her others an almost folktale-like tone and plot. Never mind that it contains its share of Buicks and bridge parties; it still possesses the hushed, concentrated, stripped quality of a legend. And like a legend, it draws us in. It's spellbinding."« less