My daughter loved this one. I thoroughly enjoyed it as well. Her favorite chapter was when they made the "Everything pudding". I liked the wholesomeness of the book.

Read this for a reading challenge. I had never read any of the Betsy-Tacy books before, but had heard of them. The book reminded me of the Little House books but the writing style here feels a bit more dated. However, the stories are charming and are practically autobiographical from Lovelace's childhood which is what makes them so believable. At one point the girls call out pretend names based on their hair color ("I'm Whitey! I'm Blackie! I'm Reddie!") My daughters used to call their stuffed animals names like that when they were very young as well.
I wasn't completely enthralled with this book but I did like the historical turn of the century American era that it captured. Sometimes it's quaint like when they go to the Flying Lady show. Sometimes it's shocking: One chapter starts out with "That spring Tacy had diptheria." And today kids can read about Tacy being quarantined and totally understand what that's all about!

Like the grown-ups in the book I was a bit worried that Tib's arrival would mess with the Betsy-Tacy magic, but it definitely didn't!

Re-read - October 2016.

Ah...the good old days are all over these books and I think that's why I keep requesting the next one in the series. These three buddies are now 7-9 years old and I can relate to many of their childhood adventures (remember when we didn't have technology, played fort in the hay mow, created our own secret clubs and cut giant chunks out of our own hair??? GASP)

Great stories...each chapter is a charming little adventure/mishap and I will pick these up if I'm ever lucky enough to find them at book sales, etc.

I'm slowly working my way through this series and am enjoying the adventures and simple pleasures of these three friends who lived at the turn of the 20th Century. Betsy and Tacy are the dreamers and Tibs is the practical one who goes along with their shenanigans because she loves them.

In this book they quarrel horribly with their siblings and learn about forgiveness.

This is a sweet series that would be a great read-aloud for young girls.

This was such a cute book!!!

I'm not even kidding, I loved it so much! I am really liking this series so far!

I think my favorite chapter might have been Everything Pudding XDD and the song that went along with it!! XD

Also TCKC and BHM!!! XD

But seriously, I'm loving this series :P

These books are darling! I can't believe I've never read them before!

A new child the same age as the imaginative and adventurous Betsy and her bashful across-the-street neighbor Tacy moved into the large chocolate colored house with a tower and the colored window panes that had so fascinated Betsy and Tacy that they hoped to buy it with their earned nickels in the last book. Newcomer Tib lived one block down and one block over (the second block was through a vacant lot).

Tib became their friend, refuting the belief of some in the neighborhood that a third little girl might interrupt the harmony of two who played nicely together and never quarreled. Betsy conjured up all kinds of adventures as the three, sometimes fearlessly (as in learning to fly like birds) and sometimes apprehensively (as in exploring farther and farther in new directions over the Big Hill) learned lessons about what to do and not to do as they anxiously waited to be 10.

Betsy and Tacy were born 100 years before me and yet I can see my own free-sprited and imagination rich childhood in their capers. It’s so sweet and so nostalgic and I’m only sad that I didn’t know them when I was still a little girl.

"Three can make the planets sing." This is the opening quote for this book, a book that then goes on to prove that three need not be a crowd. These three wee girls are priceless and they belong together. And the troubles that three can imagine is much more divine! I love all that Ms. Lovelace writes as she transports me back to a time and place where I love to visit. Oh! And I adore the fact that the cat is named Lady Jane Grey!

This is the second book in the Betsy Tacy series, and the girls, led by Betsy, continue their adventures in their small town neighborhood. They are basically good little girls, but when you get three good little girls together there is bound to be some mischief. These timeless stories written 75 years ago are still a pleasure to read today.