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Betsy-Tacy - Lois Lenski, Maud Hart Lovelace
Betsy-Tacy
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Best Friends Forever There are lots of children on Hill Street, but no little girls Betsy's age. So when a new family moves into the house across the street, Betsy hopes they will have a little girl she can play with. Sure enough, they do—a little girl named Tacy. And from the moment they meet at... show more
Best Friends Forever There are lots of children on Hill Street, but no little girls Betsy's age. So when a new family moves into the house across the street, Betsy hopes they will have a little girl she can play with. Sure enough, they do—a little girl named Tacy. And from the moment they meet at Betsy's fifth birthday party, Betsy and Tacy becoms such good friends that everyone starts to think of them as one person—Betsy-Tacy.Betsy and Tacy have lots of fun together. They make a playhouse from a piano box, have a sand store, and dress up and go calling. And one day, they come home to a wonderful surprise—a new friend named Tib.Ever since their first publication in the 1940's, the Betsy-Tacy stories have been loved by each generation of young readers.
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780064400961 (0064400964)
ASIN: 64400964
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pages no: 144
Edition language: English
Series: Betsy-Tacy (#1)
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Reading Slothfully
Reading Slothfully rated it
3.0 Betsy-Tacy
Betsy Ray is almost 5. She has an older sister, Julia, but no friends on her street of her own age. She lives in a small town in Minnesota around the turn of the 20th century. Then a family moves in across the street and they have a 5-year old girl as well. Her name is Tacy Kelly and she's very shy....
MatthewHunter
MatthewHunter rated it
Between Laura Ingalls Wilder and Maud Hart Lovelace, the Upper Midwest in the 1930s and 40s did more than it's share in writing really good stories for children. Apparently, Lovelace has such a loyal following that a Betsy-Tacy convention has been held in Lovelace's home town and the series' setting...
Dichotomygirl
Dichotomygirl rated it
I picked up 8 of the 10 of this series at the thrift store, and thought I would Pre-read it before sharing it with my daughter some day.Being raised in Wisconsin, I loved the poem about Milwaukee, and them imaging that it was an exciting and exotic place!
Melody Murray's Books
Melody Murray's Books rated it
5.0 Betsy-Tacy (Betsy-Tacy Books)
9/2012 Six stars. Ninety-six stars. Down Town is my favorite of the first four books and ranks near my favorites in the series entire. I'm prissy about my copy, which is, in fact titled Down Town. None of this namby-pamby Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown stuff. Nope, just Down Town, because like Winona, I...
Melody Murray's Books
Melody Murray's Books rated it
5.0 Betsy-Tacy (Betsy-Tacy Books)
9/2012 Stet12/2007 Re-reading this book hardly counts as reading, since I know it like the back of my hand. The entire series is so well-written and just plain fun that revisiting it is a treat. Lovelace's essential voice is unchanged throughout the series, yet she writes in a tone designed to engag...
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