The Betsy-Tacy Treasury: The First Four Betsy-Tacy Books
&#8220;Some characters become your friends for life. That&#8217;s how it was for me with Betsy-Tacy.&#8221; (Judy Blume)&#8220;I read every one of these Betsy-Tacy Tib books twice. I loved them as a child, as a young adult, and now, reading them with my daughter, as a mother. What a wonderful world it was!&#8221; (Bette Midler, actor and singer)&#8220;Betsy-Tacy fans never die. They just reread.&#8221; (Anna Quindlen)&#8220;Betsy was a high-school junior when automobiles were new...but her problems were much the same as her modern high-school sisters.&#8221; (Chicago Sun)&#8220;Family loyalty and the devotion of friends to one another, which for me are the defining characteristics of the Betsy-Tacy stories.&#8221; (Esther Hautzig, award-winning author, former Director of Children's Book Promotion for Thomas Y. Crowell Co., and former publicist for Betsy's Wedding in 1955)&#8220;I am fairly certain that my independent, high-spirited grandmother must have had a childhood similar to Betsy Ray&#8217;s&#8230;As I read..., I felt that I was having an unexpected and welcome peek into Granny&#8217;s childhood&#151;a gift to me from Maud Hart Lovelace.&#8221; (Ann M. Martin, creator/author of The Baby-sitter's Club)&#8220;I now realize that one of the reasons I believed I could someday become a writer was because of Betsy&#8217;s own infallible confidence that she would be a writer. (Mary Kay Andews, New York Times Bestselling Author)&#8220;When I was growing up in the Bronx, I had lots of friends. But the girls I most enjoyed spending time with were Betsy, Tacy and Tib . . . three girls full of good ideas, adventures and fun.&#8221; (Johanna Hurwitz, award-winning author of more than sixty popular books for young readers)