My absolute favorite series growing up! I have a lot of big serious books on tap for this fall so I'm going to be frivolous in between them and re-read the Betsy-Tacy series.

I love that these stories are partially autobiographical. I can just imagine all the trouble these 3 girls got in!

I also read this one to one of the girls I babysit!

This book has one of my favorite escapades: when the girls cut each other's hair.
I loved this series from my childhood. They are a bit dated now, but I feel my little girl joy every time I re-read them.

MHL does such an excellent job of capturing the thoughts and ideas of children. I love seeing the girls have more defined personalities in this book and this one had some really memorable stories!

I read this book to Emery last year and she loves the Betsy & Tacy audio book. There is no audio book for this sweet story, so I read it for Hadley to make into a yoto card for Emery. Mr mother read it to me when I was little and I also read it to my children. I have read the whole series.

I could quite possibly write another rambly review for this one, but it would be essentially the same as book 1. I loved this just a little less than the first one, maybe, but still really charming.

*Read: 2 December 2011, 20 January 2015

Reread.

I originally read this back in 2014 and enjoyed the entire series. I wanted to revisit Hill Street and the adventures of Betsy, Tacy, and Tib. The stories are just an enjoyable as I remember them. I would for sure recommend this series for a read aloud with parents or a family read along.

MCL. I liked when they tried to imitate the flying lady from the circus using the see-saw.

Just delightful. I'm starting to feel glad I never read this series when I was a little girl, since now I have them to enjoy as an adult. Life is a lot harder and more complicated now, after all, and finding cozy, comforting stories to take my mind off that fact is a rare treat. On to book #3!

charming, like the first. I maybe even liked it a bit better.

This review also appears on my blog, Read-at-Home Mom.

Betsy and Tacy are best friends. Then they meet Tib. Tib is a bit more serious-minded and practical than the other two girls, but despite the naysaying of adults, they all get along just fine. In this second book of the series, the girls have a variety of adventures, including begging at a neighbor’s door for food, cutting off half of each other’s hair, trying to crash Betsy’s and Tacy’s older sisters’ club, and cooking a pudding containing everything in the kitchen.

Though this series is quite old, there is a freshness to each of the girls’ escapades that easily compares to mischief perpetrated by Ramona Quimby, Ivy & Bean, Clementine and other contemporary girls in chapter books. The tone of the books is lively, and it’s clear the author’s tongue is frequently in her cheek as she relates with complete seriousness the wild imaginings of girls with runaway imaginations. Some of what the girls do clearly dates the book to the 1900s, when it is set, but many of their ideas could easily pop into the minds of girls living today. Young readers will delight in the trouble caused by Betsy’s silly ideas, even if they themselves are more like Tib.