door.
Many of the episodes in the book, including the begging episode, were based on real-life incidents. While describing a Thanksgiving dinner reunion with Bick, Maud reminisced: “We talked about old days and laughed very hard about the time we made Everything Pudding and cut off one another’s hair.” And an old friend of Maud’s remembered that “the street carnival was just as it is in the book, flying lady and all.” Maud also recalled that Bick played the part of the Flying Lady on the end of a seesaw in the Hart woodshed. Even the mishaps—such as when Bick yelled that she was falling off—are accurately depicted in the book.
Midge’s mother, Minnie Gerlach.
Of course, not everything in the book is based on real life. One interesting difference involves Midge’s family. Although Midge’s brothers, Henry and William, are fictionalized in the books as Freddie and Hobbie, her baby sister, Dorothy, never appears in the books at all. But Dorothy’s nickname will be familiar to readers—Maud uses her name for the character Aunt Dolly, who first appears in
Betsy-Tacy and Tib.
At the end of
Betsy-Tacy and Tib
, the girls wonder what it would be like to be ten. “We won’t be going to balls, maybe,” Betsy says to Tib. “But we’ll have lots of fun, you and me and Tacy.” And we can guess that Maud, Bick, and Midge did too.
Maud Hart Lovelace died on March 11, 1980. But her legacy lives on in the beloved series she created and in her legions of fans, many of whom are members of the Betsy-Tacy Society and the Maud Hart Lovelace Society. For more information, write to:
The Betsy-Tacy Society
c/o BECHS
415 Cherry Street
Mankato, MN 56001
The Maud Hart Lovelace Society
Fifty 94th Circle NW, # 201
Minneapolis, MN 55448
Adapted from
The Betsy-Tacy Companion: A Biography of
Maud Hart Lovelace
by Sharla Scannell Whalen
Copyright
Harper Trophy ® is a registered trademark
of HarperCollins Publishers Inc.
Betsy-Tacy and Tib
Copyright © 1941 by Maud Hart Lovelace
Copyright renewed 1969 by Maud Hart Lovelace
Foreword copyright © 2000 by Ann M. Martin
“Maud Hart Lovelace and Her World” (adapted from
The Betsy-Tacy Companion: A Biography of Maud Hart Lovelace
by Sharla Scannell Whalen)
Copyright © 2000 by HarperCollins Publishers Inc.
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
EPub Edition © MARCH 2011 ISBN: 978-0-061-99831-7
LC Number 41-18714
ISBN 0-06-024416-X
ISBN 0-06-440097-2 (pbk.)
10 11 12 13 LP/CW 30 29 28 27 26 25 24
First published in hardcover by Thomas Y. Crowell Company in 1941.
First Harper Trophy edition, 1979.
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Many of the episodes in the book, including the begging episode, were based on real-life incidents. While describing a Thanksgiving dinner reunion with Bick, Maud reminisced: “We talked about old days and laughed very hard about the time we made Everything Pudding and cut off one another’s hair.” And an old friend of Maud’s remembered that “the street carnival was just as it is in the book, flying lady and all.” Maud also recalled that Bick played the part of the Flying Lady on the end of a seesaw in the Hart woodshed. Even the mishaps—such as when Bick yelled that she was falling off—are accurately depicted in the book.
Midge’s mother, Minnie Gerlach.
Of course, not everything in the book is based on real life. One interesting difference involves Midge’s family. Although Midge’s brothers, Henry and William, are fictionalized in the books as Freddie and Hobbie, her baby sister, Dorothy, never appears in the books at all. But Dorothy’s nickname will be familiar to readers—Maud uses her name for the character Aunt Dolly, who first appears in
Betsy-Tacy and Tib.
At the end of
Betsy-Tacy and Tib
, the girls wonder what it would be like to be ten. “We won’t be going to balls, maybe,” Betsy says to Tib. “But we’ll have lots of fun, you and me and Tacy.” And we can guess that Maud, Bick, and Midge did too.
Maud Hart Lovelace died on March 11, 1980. But her legacy lives on in the beloved series she created and in her legions of fans, many of whom are members of the Betsy-Tacy Society and the Maud Hart Lovelace Society. For more information, write to:
The Betsy-Tacy Society
c/o BECHS
415 Cherry Street
Mankato, MN 56001
The Maud Hart Lovelace Society
Fifty 94th Circle NW, # 201
Minneapolis, MN 55448
Adapted from
The Betsy-Tacy Companion: A Biography of
Maud Hart Lovelace
by Sharla Scannell Whalen
Copyright
Harper Trophy ® is a registered trademark
of HarperCollins Publishers Inc.
Betsy-Tacy and Tib
Copyright © 1941 by Maud Hart Lovelace
Copyright renewed 1969 by Maud Hart Lovelace
Foreword copyright © 2000 by Ann M. Martin
“Maud Hart Lovelace and Her World” (adapted from
The Betsy-Tacy Companion: A Biography of Maud Hart Lovelace
by Sharla Scannell Whalen)
Copyright © 2000 by HarperCollins Publishers Inc.
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
EPub Edition © MARCH 2011 ISBN: 978-0-061-99831-7
LC Number 41-18714
ISBN 0-06-024416-X
ISBN 0-06-440097-2 (pbk.)
10 11 12 13 LP/CW 30 29 28 27 26 25 24
First published in hardcover by Thomas Y. Crowell Company in 1941.
First Harper Trophy edition, 1979.
About the Publisher
Australia
HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty. Ltd.
25 Ryde Road (PO Box 321)
Pymble, NSW 2073, Australia
http://www.harpercollinsebooks.com.au
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