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Last weekend I had the fun of attending a Boston-area event for the reissue of Maud Hart Lovelace’s Emily of Deep Valley, part of the Betsy-Tacy family of books.
The event was held at Brookline Booksmith and organized in conjunction with the publisher, HarperPerennial — which also reissued the three “high school and beyond” books last [...]
Emily of Deep Valley by Maud Hart Lovelace
Paperback: 336 pages
Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics; Reprint edition (October 12, 2010)
ISBN-13: 978-0062003300
Back-of-the-book blurb: Emily Webster, an orphan living with her grandfather, is not like the other girls her age in Deep Valley, Minnesota. After graduation, she longs to join the Crowd and go off to college—but she can’t [...]
(left to right) Jen, Barb, Dawn
Do you remember when I wrote about meeting two very devoted Betsy-Tacy fans for tea?! What an afternoon we had: eating, chatting, and sharing favorite scenes from the books; my cheeks hurt from laughing at their various Betsy-Tacy adventures. It was easy to see how much these books meant to Barb [...]
Library Hospital is hosting the first ever Maud Hart Lovelace reading challenge. This covers all things Maud-related: the beloved Betsy-Tacy books, the Betsy-Tacy companions, Lovelace’s other novels (there were others ) … but focuses on the newly reissued books about Betsy in high school and beyond.
The challenge runs through the month of October; [...]
BETSY WAS A JUNIOR and BETSY AND JOE (newly reissued)
You may have seen some recent posts about the Betsy-Tacy books, written by Maud Hart Lovelace beginning in the late 1930s. Here’s a book series that grows with the reader; a set of true comfort reads that we can return to again and again. We [...]
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