![]() ![]() ![]() Where had Betsy Ray been all my life?Ĭlearly she was a kindred spirit of the likes of my beloved Anne and Laura. Not paid a whole lot, mind you, but still. You never saw a happier little coffee-fetcher than the girl I was, newly married and soon to be expecting baby Jane, sitting in my cubicle devouring those galleys and getting paid for it. I never heard of the Betsy-Tacy books until 1994, when I was a young staffer at HarperChildren’s, and the galleys for the reissues-the very editions that are now going out of print-began to float across my desk. ![]() It’s almost hard for me to believe, now, that I grew up without Betsy Ray and her Deep Valley friends. ![]() The post below was written in early 2007, when many of Maud’s books were going out of print. □ I’ve written about the entire series (with a chronological list) here. They’ve been reissued in beautiful editions with vintage illustrations, photographs, and introductions by authors who cherish the Betsy-Tacy books, including Judy Blume, Anna Quindlen, Meg Cabot, Mitali Perkins, Laura Lippman, and yours truly. UPDATED 2012: Thanks to the tireless efforts of HarperPerennial’s Jennifer Hart and the Betsy-Tacy Society, all of Maud Hart Lovelace’s Deep Valley books are now back in print. Febru 2:27 pm | Filed under: Betsy-Tacy, Books ![]()
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