Emily of Deep Valley
Emily of Deep Valley

Author: Maud Hart Lovelace

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2011-04-26

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 0062094289

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“I re-read these books every year, marveling at how a world so quaint—shirtwaists! Pompadours! Merry Widow hats!—can feature a heroine who is undeniably modern.” —Laura Lippman “There are three authors whose body of work I have reread more than once over my adult life: Charles Dickens, Jane Austen and Maud Hart Lovelace.” —Anna Quindlen Often considered Maud Hart Lovelace’s best novel, Emily of Deep Valley is now back in print. This gorgeous volume includes a new foreword by acclaimed young adult author Mitali Perkins, and compelling historical material about the real people who inspired Lovelace’s beloved characters. Emily of Deep Valley joins the Harper Perennial Modern Classics library next to other enduring favorites like A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, To Kill a Mockingbird, and Lovelace’s Betsy-Tacy books.

Betsy-Tacy
Betsy-Tacy

Author: Maud Hart Lovelace

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2011-05-17

Total Pages: 151

ISBN-13: 0061998303

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Best Friends Forever There are lots of children on Hill Street, but no little girls Betsy's age. So when a new family moves into the house across the street, Betsy hopes they will have a little girl she can play with. Sure enough, they do—a little girl named Tacy. And from the moment they meet at Betsy's fifth birthday party, Betsy and Tacy becoms such good friends that everyone starts to think of them as one person—Betsy-Tacy. Betsy and Tacy have lots of fun together. They make a playhouse from a piano box, have a sand store, and dress up and go calling. And one day, they come home to a wonderful surprise—a new friend named Tib. Ever since their first publication in the 1940's, the Betsy-Tacy stories have been loved by each generation of young readers.

Carney's House Party
Carney's House Party

Author: Maud Hart Lovelace

Publisher: Turtleback Books

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780613310468

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In the summer of 1911, Carney looks forward to hosting a month-long house party at her Deep Valley home with not only her Vassar college roommate as a guest but all the old crowd, especially her high school sweetheart who moved to California four years before.

Betsy-Tacy and Tib
Betsy-Tacy and Tib

Author: Maud Hart Lovelace

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2011-05-17

Total Pages: 131

ISBN-13: 0061998311

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Three of a Kind Betsy and Tacy are best friends. Then Tib moves into the neighborhood and the three of them start to play together. The grown-ups think they will quarrel, but they don't. Sometimes they quarrel with Betsy's and Tacy's bossy big sisters, but they never quarrel among themselves. They are not as good as they might be. They cook up awful messes in the kitchen, throw mud on each other and pretend to be beggars, and cut off each other's hair. But Betsy, Tacy, and Tib always manage to have a good time. Ever since their first publication in the 1940s, the Betsy-Tacy stories have been loved by each generation of young readers.

Winona's Pony Cart
Winona's Pony Cart

Author: Maud Hart Lovelace

Publisher: Turtleback Books

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780613275996

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Winona Root tells her friends she's going to get a pony for her birthday. It's only when the exciting day draws near that Winona begins to wonder: What if her father meant it when he said she "couldn't" have a pony?

Carney's House Party/Winona's Pony Cart
Carney's House Party/Winona's Pony Cart

Author: Maud Hart Lovelace

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2011-04-26

Total Pages: 406

ISBN-13: 0062094270

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“Some characters become your friends for life. That’s how it was for me with Betsy-Tacy.” —Judy Blume “I am fairly certain that my independent, high-spirited grandmother must have had a childhood similar to Betsy Ray’s….As I read...I felt that I was having an unexpected and welcome peek into Granny’s childhood.” —Ann M. Martin, author of The Baby-sitter's Club Two of Maud Hart Lovelace’s beloved Deep Valley books join the Harper Perennial Modern Classics library, next to other enduring favorites like A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, To Kill a Mockingbird and Lovelace’s Betsy-Tacy books. This beautiful combination edition of Carney's House Party and Winona's Pony Cart features a foreword by author Melissa Wiley and a never-before-published biography of Lovelace illustrator Vera Neville.

Discover Deep Valley
Discover Deep Valley

Author: Julie A. Schrader

Publisher:

Published: 2011-10-15

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 9780979494048

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Photography and historical information about the places and faces featured in the Betsy-Tacy Deep Valley books. Includes maps.

Betsy-Tacy Treasury
Betsy-Tacy Treasury

Author: Maud Hart Lovelace

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2011-11-08

Total Pages: 507

ISBN-13: 0062125567

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The first four books in the beloved Betsy-Tacy series are ready to delight a new generation ofreaders—and to bring a grownup generation of readers back to the engrossingstories of their youth. Following the childhoods of Betsy Ray and her friendsin the late 1800s and early 1900s, this handsome anthology collects theoriginal Betsy-Tacy as well as Betsy, Tacy and Tib, Betsy and Tacy Go Over the Big Hill, and Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown. Forewords by Judy Blume,Esther Hautzig, and Johanna Hurwitz, andillustrations by Lois Lenski, will make readers ofall ages feel at home in the imaginative life of young Betsy Ray as she awakensto the challenges and triumphs of her home in quaint Mankato, Minnesota.