Betsy-Tacy

maud hart lovelace sutton foster

Betsy and Tacy were two little five-year-olds, such inseparable friends that they were regarded almost as one. These stories of their friendship present a very real picture of young children living in the early 1900's.

Genres classicschildrensfictionhistorical fictionmiddle gradeyoung adultjuvenilehistoricalchapter booksfriendship

0 pages, Audio CD

First published January 1,1940

Series

Betsy-Tacy

Places

mankato, minnesota, deep valley minnesota,

This edition

Format: 0 pages, Audio CD
Published: August 14, 2007 by HarperCollins
ISBN: 9780061254581
ASIN: 0061254584
Language: English

Characters More characters

Betsy Ray

a spunky, overly imaginative girl with brown braids in turn-of-the-century Deep Valley, Minn....
Tacy Kelly

a red-headed girl with a big Irish Catholic family in turn-of-the-century Deep Valley, Minn....
Katie Kelly

Tacy Kellys older sister; she and Julia Ray are best friendsmore...
Bee Kelly

the youngest of the 10 Kelly children...
Jule Ray

Betsy Tacys mother, a talented pianistmore...
Robert Ray

Betsy Rays father, the owner of a shoe store and a great jokermore...

About the author

maud hart lovelace

Maud Hart Lovelace was born on April 25, 1892, in Mankato, Minnesota. She was the middle of three children born to Thomas and Stella (Palmer) Hart. Her sister, Kathleen, was three years older, and her other sister, Helen, was six years younger. “That dear family" was the model for the fictional Ray family.

Maud's birthplace was a small house on a hilly residential street several blocks above Mankato's center business district. The street, Center Street, dead-ended at one of the town's many hills. When Maud was a few months old, the Hart family moved two blocks up the street to 333 Center.

Shortly before Maud's fifth birthday a “large merry Irish family" moved into the house directly across the street. Among its many children was a girl Maud's age, Frances, nicknamed Bick, who was to be Maud's best friend and the model for Tacy Kelly.

Tib's character was based on another playmate, Marjorie (Midge) Gerlach, who lived nearby in a large house designed by her architect father. Maud, Bick, and Midge became lifelong friends. Maud once stated that the three couldn't have been closer if they'd been sisters.