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Betsy and Tacy Go Over the Big Hill
Betsy and Tacy Go Over the Big Hill | Maud Hart Lovelace
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Betsy, Tacy, and Tib can't wait to be ten. After all, getting two numbers in your age is the beginning of growing upexciting things are bound to happen. And they do! The girls fall in love with the King of Spain, perform in the School Entertainment, and for the first time, go all the way over the Big Hill to Little Syria by themselves. There Betsy, Tacy, and Tib make new friends and learn a thing or two. They learn that new Americans are sometimes the best Americans. And they learn that they themselves wouldn't want to be anything else. Ever since their first publication in the 1940s, the Betsy-Tacy stories have been loved by each generation of young readers.
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LeahBergen
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A great big HAPPY BIRTHDAY to someone who has fantastic taste in books (because it‘s remarkably similar to mine 😆) and who is not “over the hill” yet. 😉

Enjoy your day, my friend! 😘😘

LauraBeth Happy Birthday @rubyslippersreads 😀🎉🎉🎉 4y
CarolynM Happy birthday @rubyslippersreads 🎂🎈🎉 Hope you have a lovely day 4y
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Kalalalatja Happy happy birthday! 4y
Gissy Happy Birthday @rubyslippersreads 🎂🎉🎊🎈🎈🎈👏👏👏 4y
Birdsong28 Happy birthday @rubyslippersreads 🎉🎊📚📖 4y
rubyslippersreads Thanks so much for the birthday wishes from “Deep Valley” 😘 (edited) 4y
LeahBergen @rubyslippersreads You‘re welcome! Have you had an exciting day? There‘s a little bday parcel heading your way; the tracking shows it has just been released by US customs so you should have it in a day or two. So sorry it‘s late! 4y
rubyslippersreads @LeahBergen I‘ve had a lovely day. Breakfast out, followed by an antiquarian book fair, and am going out to dinner tonight. Looking forward to the parcel. 😊 4y
LeahBergen @rubyslippersreads Well, that all sounds just about perfect! 😍 4y
Bette Happy Birthday @rubyslippersreads Many happy returns of the day... and I wish many good reads in your future. 🍰🎂📚 4y
Tanisha_A Cute post, Leah! 😀 Happy birthday, @rubyslippersreads 🥳🎂🎈🎁 4y
Cathythoughts A very Happy Birthday @rubyslippersreads 🥳🥳🥳 4y
batsy Happy birthday @rubyslippersreads ❤️🎂🎈 4y
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rubyslippersreads
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The real Tib, a #tinydancer in her white dress. #marchintothe70s

LeahBergen She was so cute!! 😍😍 5y
Cinfhen Too funny!!! 5y
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Andrea313
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1. There are so many, but I'm gonna beat the Betsy-Tacy drum for life.
2. Thai food! Wish I was eating some right now...
3. I cannot stop with The End of the F***ing World on Netflix. Someone send help.
4. If you have some time right now, consider yourself tagged!

#TuesdayTidbits #betsytacy #teotfw

@JenlovesJT47

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LeahBergen
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On to the third book in this utterly charming series. I can‘t stop!

Kaye Cool 😎 bookmark. Where‘d you get it ? 6y
rubyslippersreads Perfect bookmark! 😘 6y
Eggs I need that bookmark!!!!! Native Minnesotan here... 6y
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LeahBergen @Kaye @rubyslippersreads @Eggs Thanks! I picked it up on a Minnesota road trip with my best friend. ❤️ 6y
Kaye That‘d be a great idea, to purchase a bookmark from every state you visit. 6y
LeahBergen @Kaye I always buy a bookmark from wherever I travel. 👍🏻 6y
AWahle I loved these books as a kid. The military base library always had a great selection of older kids books because there wasn't a budget for new ones! 6y
Blaire Yes! I read all of these in a row about two years ago. Fell completely in love with them. 6y
Chrissyreadit Is this your first time reading them? They are favorites of mine. My best friend and I used to reread the series every Easter in high school and college. 6y
Chrissyreadit @Kaye that is a fun idea!!! 6y
LeahBergen @AWahle Well, that was probably a lucky “lack of funding”. 😆 It forced kids to read the classics. ❤️ 6y
LeahBergen @Blaire I just ordered the rest of the series. 😂 6y
LeahBergen @Chrissyreadit It IS my first time reading them. They‘re absolutely wonderful. 💕 6y
Chrissyreadit @LeahBergen Yay! Can‘t wait to hear what you think of the series as a whole. I was so excited when my daughter finally read them. One of my goals is to buy the series new. Mine are literally falling apart (the paperbacks) - the last three I have in hardcover they are still in good shape. Make sure you tell us your favorite when it is finished! 6y
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Eggs
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Betsy's house in Minnesota

Chrissyreadit I could not love this enough! ❤️❤️❤️❤️Love Betsy! I want to get the biography about Maud Hart Lovelace. Always wished she wrote more about her adult years. 6y
Eggs That biography would interest me too😍😍 6y
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KimHM
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1. Too few readers irl
2. In kindergarten, when I believed I could read because I had memorized the Little Golden book about the lamb in the drum
3. The Betsy, Tacy and Tib series
4. Chuck Klosterman's I Wear the Black Hat
5. EDIT! Gillian Welch! Allll the love ❤️
6. The Inspector Lynley mysteries
7. My 1950s edition of Leaves of Grass
8. Alas, none
9. Nope
10. First grade teacher, Mrs. Beck

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rubyslippersreads
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My #favoritefandom is Betsy-Tacy! I've been lucky enough to visit Mankato (aka Deep Valley) and see the real Betsy and Tacy houses, and walk up the Big Hill. There's even a "fan club" (https://www.betsy-tacysociety.org/) for anyone interested. #octphotochallenge

Crinoline_Laphroaig I finally made it there this summer! ❤💙💚💛💜 8y
MKbookworm I plan on making it there some day.... 8y
misswendyd I so want to go one day! 8y
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