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From: fran manushkin <franm>
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 16:24:23 -0400
I heartily second the Betsy-Tacy series. I loved them as a child and they feed the writer in me to this day. They're wonderful! Any would-be
(and non) writer would enjoy them. Fran Manushkin
On Apr 17, 2007, at 2:53 PM, Carla K wrote:
The books that immediately spring to mind are Maud Hart Lovelace's Betsy-Tacy series. Based on the author's childhood in Mankato (called Deep Valley in the books), MN from 1900 to 1917, Betsy's desire to write is a constant theme. When she is very young, in the earliest books, she entertains her friends with the stories she makes up. At twelve, she sends a story (crammed in tiny letters on one sheet of borrowed stationery) to a magazine (somehow, it never makes it into print), and has a poem published in the town newspaper.
In the high school books, Betsy mails an endless stream of stories off to various magazines, and when she is in college, those stories begin to sell. Wonderfully evocative of their time and place (popular music and dance, clothing fashions, home furnishings and recipes are essential parts of all of the books), Betsy's love of reading and dogged determination to become a published author are part of her very being, and essential to the 20 years of character development covered in the series.
Carla Kozak, San Francisco Public Library
Carla Kozak"Librarian by Day, Catwoman by Night (Gone to the Dogs)"
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Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 16:24:23 -0400
I heartily second the Betsy-Tacy series. I loved them as a child and they feed the writer in me to this day. They're wonderful! Any would-be
(and non) writer would enjoy them. Fran Manushkin
On Apr 17, 2007, at 2:53 PM, Carla K wrote:
The books that immediately spring to mind are Maud Hart Lovelace's Betsy-Tacy series. Based on the author's childhood in Mankato (called Deep Valley in the books), MN from 1900 to 1917, Betsy's desire to write is a constant theme. When she is very young, in the earliest books, she entertains her friends with the stories she makes up. At twelve, she sends a story (crammed in tiny letters on one sheet of borrowed stationery) to a magazine (somehow, it never makes it into print), and has a poem published in the town newspaper.
In the high school books, Betsy mails an endless stream of stories off to various magazines, and when she is in college, those stories begin to sell. Wonderfully evocative of their time and place (popular music and dance, clothing fashions, home furnishings and recipes are essential parts of all of the books), Betsy's love of reading and dogged determination to become a published author are part of her very being, and essential to the 20 years of character development covered in the series.
Carla Kozak, San Francisco Public Library
Carla Kozak"Librarian by Day, Catwoman by Night (Gone to the Dogs)"
--------------------------------- Ahhh...imagining that irresistible "new car" smell?
Check outnew cars at Yahoo! Autos.
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