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Title: Betsy-Tacy by Maud Hart Lovelace, Lois Lenski ISBN: 0-06-440096-4 Publisher: HarperTrophy Pub. Date: 04 April, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.63 (19 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Charming!!!
Comment: Somebody said: It is never too late to have a happy childhood. Well, reading Betsy-Tacy will give anyone a good idea about what a nice childhood is about. This is the first book in a series of books about Betsy. The reader follows her from age five, as she is in this book. It is absolutely delightful! Betsy's life changes much to the better as a new girl her age, Tacy, becomes her neighbour and her best friend. Together, they play and explore the world around them. Reading this book is so enjoyable ... it leaves the reader with a nice feeling of satisfaction.
Rating: 5
Summary: The wonderful first book of an enchanting children's series.
Comment: Hooray!!! I am so thrilled these books are in print again. I read them all (several times!) as a child growing up in the 1960's in a town 30 miles from "Deep Valley", (aka Mankato) Minnesota. I inherited them from my mother's childhood collection. But when I moved to California in 1969 no one had heard of them. My, now 14 year old daughter, read, and re-read the 3-generations-old books and loved them as well! She and I both rejoice to see these timeless stories enjoying a national rebirth. They've even made the movies...Meg Ryan's book store owning character in the 1999 movie "You've Got Mail" refers to Betsy, Tacy and Tib. Maud Hart Lovelace would be pleased and proud!!!
Rating: 2
Summary: A difficult book to love today
Comment: It is not as if I wasn't primed for this book at an early age. As a child I was quite obsessed with any books that had the name "Betsy" in them. The excellent and little known, "Understood Betsy" by Dorothy Canfield was written in 1917 and remains one of the sweetest unsentimental children's stories today. Yet even young I consciously avoided the Betsy-Tacy books like the plague. I was aware from an off-hand flipping through them that these were not stories I would enjoy. They were about little girls who had rather wimpy (in my opinion then) adventures. Where were the exciting city scenes of the "All-of-a-Kind-Family" books? Or the beautiful descriptive passages of the "Little House" books? I was disappointed by these books as a child, and I am afraid my opinion has changed little since growing up. The books are maudlin and lacking in spunk. The most gripping scene in the book is found on page five when Tacy flees from Betsy. Spunk is not unknown to little girls in books from this time period. Girls in the books already mentioned had it. My beloved "Caddie Woodlawn" had it. Heck, "Anne of Green Gables" was fairly overflowing with it. Is this to say that every little girl in every book from the past should be spunky and wild? Not at all. But there must be some interest there. Something that a girl today can read and latch onto. Friendship is the overarching theme of this book, and it carries the story as far as it can. Just the same, I have my doubts that any child uninitiated into this series by an earnest parent would naturally gravitate to it in the library today. It would also not read aloud well to boys, I suspect. I may be incorrect and as I write millions of little girls are falling in love with these stories on their own daily, but it seems a little unlikely.
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Title: Betsy-Tacy and Tib by Maud Hart Lovelace, Lois Lenski ISBN: 0064400972 Publisher: HarperTrophy Pub. Date: 01 June, 1979 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown by Maud Hart Lovelace, Lois Lenski ISBN: 0064400980 Publisher: HarperTrophy Pub. Date: 04 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Betsy and Tacy Go Over the Big Hill by Maud Hart Lovelace, Lois Lenski ISBN: 0064400999 Publisher: HarperTrophy Pub. Date: 04 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Heaven to Betsy by Maud Hart Lovelace, Vera Neville ISBN: 0064401103 Publisher: Harpercollins Juvenile Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 1945 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: Betsy in Spite of Herself by Maud Hart Lovelace, Vera Neville ISBN: 0064401111 Publisher: Harpercollins Juvenile Books Pub. Date: 02 April, 1980 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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