Natalie Babbitt was born Natalie Zane Moore on July 28, 1932, in Dayton, Ohio. She attended Laurel School for Girls, and then Smith College. She has 3 children and is married to Samuel Fisher Babbitt. She is a grandmother of 3 children, who live in Rhode Island and Connecticut.

Her first book was a collaborative effort; she illustrated and her husband wrote the children's book, The Forty-ninth Magician in 1966. Their editors at Farrar, Straus and Giroux (renowned for their children's literature publications) encouraged her to keep producing children's books even after her husband became too busy to participate.

She is also a board member of the National Children's Book and Literacy Alliance [1] a national not-for-profit that actively advocates for literacy, literature, and libraries.

• 1967 Dick Foote and the Shark
• 1968 Phoebe's Revolt
• 1969 The Search for Delicious
• 1970 Knee-Knock Rise
• 1970 The Something
• 1971 Goody Hall
• 1974 The Devil's Storybook
• 1975 Tuck Everlasting
• 1977 The Eyes of the Amaryllis
• 1982 Herbert Rowbarge
• 1987 The Devil's Other Storybook
• 1989 A Cat on Her Own
• 1990 The Big Book for Peace (co-written with Lloyd Alexander)
• 1994 Or the Very Best Thing
• 1998 A Tale from Grimm
• 2001 Elsie Times Eight
• 2007 Jack Plank Tells Tales

Illustrations

• 1966 Samuel Babbitt, The Forty-ninth Magician
• 1972 Valerie Worth, Small Poems
• 1976 Valerie Worth, More Small Poems
• 1978 Valerie Worth, Still More Small Poems
• 1980 Valerie Worth, Curlicues, the Fortunes of Two Pug Dogs
• 1985 Valerie Worth, Small Poems Again
• 1986 Valerie Worth, Other Small Poems Again
• 1987 Valerie Worth, All the Small Poems
• 1990 Lloyd Alexander, The Big Book for Peace
• 1994 Valerie Worth, All the Small Poems and Fourteen More
• 2002 Valerie Worth, Peacock and Other Poems