Betsy-Tacy and Tib by Maud Hart Lovelace

Lovelace described these books, for which she drew heavily on her diaries and high-school scrapbooks, as particularly true to life. This led to Heaven to Betsy (1945), Betsy in Spite of Herself (1946), Betsy was a Junior (1947), and Betsy and Joe (1948), each of which covers one high school year. Although Lovelace intended to end the series after four books, her husband and daughter, who had found her high-school diaries, insisted that she use them to extend it through Betsy's high school career. The popularity of Betsy-Tacy, published in 1940, led her to write three more books, Betsy-Tacy and Tib (1941), Betsy and Tacy Go Over the Big Hil l (1942), and Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown (1943). The series was inspired by the bedtime stories which Lovelace told to her daughter Merian about her own childhood. The first book, Betsy-Tacy, begins in 1897 on the eve of Betsy's fifth birthday, and the last book, Betsy's Wedding, ends in 1917 as the United States prepares to enter the First World War. The series follows the adventures of heroine Betsy Ray, who is based closely on the author, and her friends and family.

The first four books were illustrated by Lois Lenski and the remainder by Vera Neville. The books are now published by HarperCollins.

Urn:oclc:12198887 Republisher_date 20120828152108 Republisher_operator Scandate 20120825021942 Scanner Betsy-Tacy books are a series of semi-autobiographical novels by American novelist and short-story writer Maud Hart Lovelace (1892-1980), which were originally published between 19 by the Thomas Y. Urn:lcp:betsytacytibbets00maud:epub:4ffafb52-5261-49a2-b432-7a8a3e030e83 Extramarc UCLA Voyager Foldoutcount 0 Identifier betsytacytibbets00maud Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t0pr9193w Isbn 0064400972Ĥ1013714 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 8.0 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.16 Openlibrary OL9246321M Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 17:17:02 Boxid IA155020 Boxid_2 CH109301 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donorįriendsofthesanfranciscopubliclibrary Edition 1st Harper Trophy ed.

Betsy-Tacy and Tib by Maud Hart Lovelace