When I was growing up in the Bronx, I had lots of friends. The Betsy-Tacy books., more than any other books, fed my dream of becoming a writer one day. - Jill Kalz, 2008 MN Book Awards Readers' Choice Award winner

I grew up 30 miles north of Mankato, and trips to town were filled with mystery and magic, because I was walking the same streets that Betsy and Tacy once walked. I truly consider BETSY AND TACY GO DOWNTOWN to be the finest novel in the English language! I will never love any other books as much as I love the Betsy-Tacy books. - Claudia Mills, childrens book author, winner of National Book Award and Golden Kite Award Crowell Co., and former publicist for Betsys Wedding in 1955 ∿amily loyalty and the devotion of friends to one another, which for me are the defining characteristics of the Betsy-Tacy stories. - Esther Hautzig, Award-winning author, former Director of Childrens Book Promotion for Thomas Y. Martin, creator/author of The Baby-sitter's Club I am fairly certain that my independent, high-spirited grandmother must have had a childhood similar to Betsy Rays⁚s I read., I felt that I was having an unexpected and welcome peek into Grannys childhooda gift to me from Maud Hart Lovelace. - Ann M. The Betsy-Tacy books were among my favorites when I was growing up. - Nora Ephron, Academy Award-nominated director Thats how it was for me with Betsy-Tacy. - Judy Blume, bestselling author Some characters become your friends for life. What a wonderful world it was! - Bette Midler, actor and singer

I loved them as a child, as a young adult, and now, reading them with my daughter, as a mother. I read every one of these Betsy-Tacy-Tib books twice.

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 We fell in love.and wanted to know from year to year what was happening to them. 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. Slipping into a Betsy book is like slipping into a favorite pair of well-worn slippers: Its always a pleasure to live in Betsys world for a little while, to experience her simple joys, but also her (thankfully short-lived) sorrows. - Meg Cabot

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