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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 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.
- Format: TradePaperback
- Author: Lovelace, Maud Hart
- ISBN: 9780064400961
- Condition: Used
- Dimensions: 8.97 x 0.42
- Number Of Pages: 144
- Publication Year: 1993
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"The nicest present she received was not the usual kind of present. It was the present of a friend.”
Jennifer E. - 4 years 5 months ago“Let’s go up to our bench. That’s the best place for stories…We’ve got a piano box we play in…And Betsy’s got a baby sister…We play paper dolls…And store…We dress up and go calling. And Betsy makes up games…But the nicest present she received was not the usual kind of present. It was the present of a friend.” After rereading Maud Hart Lovelace’s Betsy-Tacy thirty years later, my favorite character was not Betsy (short for Elizabeth), Tacy (short for Anastacia), or Tib (short for Thelma) but Mrs. Benson. She has no children of her own, yet she serves as a type of mentor/godmother to the two girls, teaching them the art of manners, etiquette, and social graces through joyfully engaging them in role play–through paper dolls, entrepreneurial endeavors, and hospitality. “Mrs. Benson didn’t have any children, so she saved her fashion magazines for Betsy and Tacy…Mrs. Benson gave them each a nickel, and put the big fat jar on her piano and the perfume bottle on her parlor table. ‘Don’t they look beautiful!’ she said…They loved to dress up in grown-up clothes and go calling…So they called on Mrs. Benson, and she was very glad to see them…She pretended that they were their mothers, instead of Betsy and Tacy…Mrs. Benson gave them some tea…cambric tea, she called it, and it was delicious. They had cookies with their tea, and Betsy and Tacy nibbled them daintily.” Mrs. Benson inspired me in my own role as an aunt and educator. Deep Valley (aka Mankato, MN) is a glimpse into the divine. “Heaven’s…like the sunrise…We can’t see it during the day, but early in the morning they let us have a peek…Those gold sticks…are candles…There’s a gold-colored light all the time. And there are harps to play on; they’re something like pianos. But you don’t need to take any lessons. You just know how to play.” This series may have been written eight decades ago, but its depiction of the innocence and close knit community of rural life in the past makes it arguably even more valuable in our fast paced social media driven society today.