Betsy-Tacy (9 page)
Authors: Maud Hart Lovelace
Blue Earth County Historical Society
Maud and her friends attended Pleasant Grove School, a redbrick building that was built in 1871
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Lois Lenski's drawing of the schoolhouse
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Maud once spoke of “the fresh exciting world in which children live” and said, “I do think I remember that better than most grown-ups.” Many generations of Betsy-Tacy fans would certainly agree!
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Maud Hart Lovelace died on March 11, 1980. But her legacy lives on in the beloved series she created and in her legions of fans, many of whom are members of the Betsy-Tacy Society and the Maud Hart Lovelace Society. For more information, write to:
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The Betsy-Tacy Society
P.O. Box 94
Mankato, MN 56002-0094
(507) 345-9777
www.betsy-tacysociety.org
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The Maud Hart Lovelace Society
Fifty 94th Circle NW, # 201
Minneapolis, MN 55448
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Adapted from
The Betsy-Tacy Companion: A Biography of Maud Hart Lovelace
by Sharla Scannell Whalen
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This map of the Hill Street neighborhood by Lois Lenski was printed on the endpapers of early editions of the first four Betsy-Tacy books
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Maud Hart Lovelace
was born in Mankato, Minnesota, and based the Betsy-Tacy books on her own childhood. She once wrote, “I lived the happiest childhood a child could possibly know,” and it is this joy that comes through in her books.
You can visit the Betsy-Tacy Society online at www.betsy-tacysociety.org.
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Cover art © 2000 by Michael Koelsch
Cover design by Larissa Lawrynenko
BETSY-TACY
. Copyright © 1940 by Maud Hart Lovelace. Copyright renewed 1968 by Maud Hart Lovelace. Author note from
Minnesota Writes
and reproduced with permission. Copyright © 1961 by Instructional Fair ⢠TS Denison “Maud Hart Lovelace and Her World” (adapted from
The Betsy-Tacy Companion: A Biography of Maud Hart Lovelace
by Sharla Scannell Whalen). Copyright © 2000 by HarperCollins Publishers. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
Library of Congress catalog card number: 40-30965
ISBN 978-0-06-440096-1
First published in hardcover by Thomas Y. Crowell Company in 1940
First Harper Trophy edition, 1979
Revised Harper Trophy edition, 2007
EPub Edition © November 2009 ISBN: 978-0-06-199830-0
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