One of my favorite childhood books.

Odd how quickly this ends.

It was a good book to read cause it had a lot of snow in it. I liked when the Byrds came. The whole part when the Byrds came. I liked when Betsy came home from school.

I don't remember the book, but boy do I remember the cover.

I'm not sure I'd want to be snowbound with Betsy...

I have been looking for these books everywhere and I am so glad to have finally found them! While my friends in elementary school were always checking out the more "popular" books in the library, I found myself coming back to this series again and again. I'm pretty sure I read every book in the series at least twice! I'm a little perturbed to discover that they've been re-released with a more modern cover, because I actually prefer the vintage look. Brings back so many memories and should I stumble across these somewhere, I may just have to read them again!

Snowbound with Betsy by Carolyn Haywood (1962)

Mrs. Schmidt, my 4th grade teacher read this to us, way back in 1964 when teachers had time to nurture their students by sharing the joy of reading aloud.
I have thought of this book fondly through all these years, and also wonderful Mrs. Vivian Schmidt who taught me more than she will ever know.

I love to read this book before the start of every snowstorm. I get pulled in year after year into the peacefulness of Betsy's Blizzard.

While not strictly a Christmas book, Snowbound with Betsy takes place in the days leading up to Christmas as Betsy, her family and some strangers her father has collected along the highway all hunker down amidst the snowdrifts. Quaint and old-fashioned to the extreme, it's what most people mean when they talk about the "good old days".

I thought I remembered this from my childhood. Now I'm not sure. My how the quality of children's books has improved over the years.

I found this in a Goodwill with a very vintage cover and yellowed pages and had to pick it up for our trip to Antarctica. While on the adventure, I read this and it was absolutely adorable and awesome timing to be reading such a story. I will say that it's very different from books that kids request nowadays or any that I have recently purchased for my school libraries but it had a very nice innocence and simplicity to it. I laughed when it suddenly just ended without a twist or action. Cute story. :-)