Tag: Betsy Ray
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The best medicine
Yesterday, I was walking down the back staircase at work, not paying too much attention to things. After all, I’ve walked down that staircase thousands of times. But this time, I missed a step and managed to do a wonderful job of spraining my ankle. I’ve done this once before, about five years ago, in…
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Isn’t that romantic?
The Minnesota Post recently made a list of best Dynamic Duos–in movies, literature, history, etc. And on it, much to the pleasure of the Betsy-Tacy Society and other BT fans is Betsy and Joe as “Literary Romantic Couples”–alongside some couples that are definitely not found in children’s literature. And though I certainly adore the fact…
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To be pretty. And grown up.
For me, it was dangly earrings, curly hair and contacts. For Anne Shirley, it was upswept hair and long skirts. For Betsy Ray, it was no freckles and curly hair. And for Mona, it was a bob and red nail polish. Those beacons to girls of what it might be to be grown up. And…
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The beginning
Thus far, the vast majority of books that I’ve talked about here are ones I first read as a child. I grew up with Anne and Jo and Laura. But there’s one very important exception. I didn’t discover Betsy Ray until I was an adult–halfway through college. Oh, I had heard about the Betsy-Tacy books, largely…
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Opening Shots, Part 2
For a very different look at the first days of WWI, look no further than Betsy Ray. In Betsy and the Great World, she is almost, but not quite, in the middle of all the action, traveling through Europe in 1914. When books are set in certain years (1861, 1914, 1939), you just something historic…
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