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I can't seem to put these books down! They bring me such joy! Such delight! I think everyone of every age should read these.
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Oh, those loveable little girls, getting into mild mischief--such as when they decide to start a club to be good, with the punishment of putting stones in a bag around their neck when they were bad--but then it was so funning putting a stone in their bag that they found ways to be bad (such as calling the older girls "stuck up". The scamps!)
Interesting in what is a relatively low stakes set of books--which my 10 year old (Samantha) who is freaked out by Harry Potter seems to enjoy--there was a whole chapter in which Tacy is down with diptheria. In the next chapter, Betsy remarks almost casually, "Well, Tacy could have died. I could die. Tib could die." What a morbid time the turn of the century must have been, with all these girls so matter-of-fact about death.
(Tacy lived but I have my concerns about the fact that the books in the future of the series don't have Tacy's name in the title--and one of the books is entitled "Heavens to Betsy.")
Interesting in what is a relatively low stakes set of books--which my 10 year old (Samantha) who is freaked out by Harry Potter seems to enjoy--there was a whole chapter in which Tacy is down with diptheria. In the next chapter, Betsy remarks almost casually, "Well, Tacy could have died. I could die. Tib could die." What a morbid time the turn of the century must have been, with all these girls so matter-of-fact about death.
(Tacy lived but I have my concerns about the fact that the books in the future of the series don't have Tacy's name in the title--and one of the books is entitled "Heavens to Betsy.")
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Since I wasn't feeling very good, easy reading is the best. This was another delightful, sweet, wholesome story.
Content notes: The girls make a club to be good, but they end up liking their invented punishment so much that they end up finding excuses for being bad. They seem to learn their lesson that it doesn't work.
Content notes: The girls make a club to be good, but they end up liking their invented punishment so much that they end up finding excuses for being bad. They seem to learn their lesson that it doesn't work.
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This was very sweet and cute. I think young children would enjoy this the most. It was published in 1941, but is set in the early 1900s. Some of the stories are based on things that the author and her friends did when she was a child.
This series follows the children (later centering mostly on Betsy) as they grow up. I believe the last one is when Betsy gets married. I picked up "Betsy is a Junior" randomly from the public library when I was in my early teens and liked it. I didn't know it was part of a series until much later in my life and I've always wanted to read all of them. It's not a high priority, but I'm slowly working on it.
This series follows the children (later centering mostly on Betsy) as they grow up. I believe the last one is when Betsy gets married. I picked up "Betsy is a Junior" randomly from the public library when I was in my early teens and liked it. I didn't know it was part of a series until much later in my life and I've always wanted to read all of them. It's not a high priority, but I'm slowly working on it.
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