Yes, this is the edition I have, although it's not the first printing and it's lost its cover. Betsy, Tacy, and Tib bond with their schoolmate Winona, the newspaperman's daughter who gets free tickets to see live plays with friends. The girls' circle of friends then expands to include the Poppys, who as theatre people aren't yet popular with churchy ladies like their mothers, and the Poppys cement their bond with Betsy's parents by reconnecting them with Betsy's young uncle who ran off to become an actor and hasn't dared to write to his family since. At this period (turn of the century, when people were taking their very first "horseless carriage" rides) theatres and theatre people were still frowned on in many social circles, so something like this story might have happened.

Some little girls still love Betsy and Tacy...I've always had mixed feelings about Lois Lenski's drawings, which were famous for being deadly accurate about objects and sort of cartoonish about people, but some kids like them too.

(When did I first read this series? No idea. I didn't read the whole series at once or in sequence, at first; some of them were familiar in 1977. Kids who like sweet nostalgic stories about consistently nice people have enjoyed this series for at least three full generations.)

How have I never read the Betsy-Tacy books until now? Just finished #4 and I love them.

This wonderful children's/young adult series makes me nostalgic for the childhood I never had.

Thoroughly enjoyed reading this book to my 7 year olds. Loved how the stories of 3 tweens in the early 1900s still resonate with readers today.