Betsy is a gregarious, imaginative child. The book deals with the themes of shyness, with the birth of new siblings, with the joys of an active imaginations, and even touches on death within the family.īetsy Ray (Elizabeth Warrington Ray)- the main character of the series, based on Maud Hart Lovelace herself as a child. The fanciful adventures are provided by Betsy's active imagination and her love of telling stories. The adventures between the two friends range from the real life (such as going to school for the first time, making a playhouse out of a piano box, and dressing up to go calling) to the extraordinarily fanciful (such as being taken for a ride in the milkman's magic wagon by his talking horse, and flying away on a cloud while enjoying a picnic). The book, along with the entire Betsy-Tacy and Deep Valley series, was republished in 2000 by HarperTrophy with a new cover art illustrated by Michael Koelsch. This first book is set in roughly 1898-1899. It takes place in fictional Deep Valley, Minnesota, based on Mankato, Minnesota, the author's home town. The book is mostly about the adventures of five-year-old Betsy Ray and her new best friend, Tacy Kelly. Betsy-Tacy (1940) is the first volume in the Betsy-Tacy series by Maud Hart Lovelace.
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