Author : Julie A. Schrader
Publisher :
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 42,54 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Authors, American
ISBN : 9780971316829
Photography and historical information about the places and faces featured in the Betsy-Tacy Deep Valley books. Includes a removable map containing a walking or driving tour of the locations featured in the books, bibliographies of books by Maud Hart Lovelace, a list of characters and their real-life counterparts, and a membership application for the Betsy-Tacy Society.
Author : Maud Hart Lovelace
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 41,6 MB
Release : 2011-04-26
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0062094289
“I re-read these books every year, marveling at how a world so quaint—shirtwaists! Pompadours! Merry Widow hats!—can feature a heroine who is undeniably modern.” —Laura Lippman “There are three authors whose body of work I have reread more than once over my adult life: Charles Dickens, Jane Austen and Maud Hart Lovelace.” —Anna Quindlen Often considered Maud Hart Lovelace’s best novel, Emily of Deep Valley is now back in print. This gorgeous volume includes a new foreword by acclaimed young adult author Mitali Perkins, and compelling historical material about the real people who inspired Lovelace’s beloved characters. Emily of Deep Valley joins the Harper Perennial Modern Classics library next to other enduring favorites like A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, To Kill a Mockingbird, and Lovelace’s Betsy-Tacy books.
Author : Maud Hart Lovelace
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 19,64 MB
Release : 2011-05-17
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0061998303
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.
Author : Julie A. Schrader
Publisher :
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 30,39 MB
Release : 2011-10-15
Category : Authors, American
ISBN : 9780979494048
Photography and historical information about the places and faces featured in the Betsy-Tacy Deep Valley books. Includes maps.
Author : Maud Hart Lovelace
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 25,82 MB
Release : 2011-04-26
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0062094270
“Some characters become your friends for life. That’s how it was for me with Betsy-Tacy.” —Judy Blume “I am fairly certain that my independent, high-spirited grandmother must have had a childhood similar to Betsy Ray’s….As I read...I felt that I was having an unexpected and welcome peek into Granny’s childhood.” —Ann M. Martin, author of The Baby-sitter's Club Two of Maud Hart Lovelace’s beloved Deep Valley books join the Harper Perennial Modern Classics library, next to other enduring favorites like A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, To Kill a Mockingbird and Lovelace’s Betsy-Tacy books. This beautiful combination edition of Carney's House Party and Winona's Pony Cart features a foreword by author Melissa Wiley and a never-before-published biography of Lovelace illustrator Vera Neville.
Author : Maud Hart Lovelace
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 49,87 MB
Release : 2011-05-17
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0061998311
Three of a Kind Betsy and Tacy are best friends. Then Tib moves into the neighborhood and the three of them start to play together. The grown-ups think they will quarrel, but they don't. Sometimes they quarrel with Betsy's and Tacy's bossy big sisters, but they never quarrel among themselves. They are not as good as they might be. They cook up awful messes in the kitchen, throw mud on each other and pretend to be beggars, and cut off each other's hair. But Betsy, Tacy, and Tib always manage to have a good time. Ever since their first publication in the 1940s, the Betsy-Tacy stories have been loved by each generation of young readers.
Author : Maud Hart Lovelace
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,17 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Female friendship
ISBN : 9780613310468
In the summer of 1911, Carney looks forward to hosting a month-long house party at her Deep Valley home with not only her Vassar college roommate as a guest but all the old crowd, especially her high school sweetheart who moved to California four years before.
Author : Maud Hart Lovelace
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,74 MB
Release : 2000
Category :
ISBN : 9780613275996
Winona Root tells her friends she's going to get a pony for her birthday. It's only when the exciting day draws near that Winona begins to wonder: What if her father meant it when he said she "couldn't" have a pony?
Author : Maud Hart Lovelace
Publisher :
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,27 MB
Release : 1934
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN :
Author : Maud Hart Lovelace
Publisher :
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 23,51 MB
Release : 1937
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN :
English gentry go in for bean farming in Minnesota after the Civil War.
