Emily of Deep Valley: A Deep Valley Book
&#8220;Slipping into a Betsy book is like slipping into a favorite pair of well-worn slippers: It&#8217;s always a pleasure to live in Betsy&#8217;s world for a little while, to experience her simple joys, but also her (thankfully short-lived) sorrows.&#8221; (-Meg Cabot)&#8220;There are three authors whose body of work I have reread more than once over my adult life: Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, and Maud Hart Lovelace.&#8221; (Anna Quindlen, New York Times Bestselling Author)&#8220;I re-read these books every year, marveling at how a world so quaint--shirtwaists! Pompadours! Merry Widow hats!--can feature a heroine who is undeniably modern.&#8221; (Laura Lippman, New York Times Bestselling Author)&#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;Some characters become your friends for life. That&#8217;s how it was for me with Betsy-Tacy.&#8221; (Judy Blume, bestselling beloved YA author)&#8220;The Betsy-Tacy books were among my favorites when I was growing up.&#8221; (- Nora Ephron, Academy Award-nominated director)&#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-a gift to me from Maud Hart Lovelace.&#8221; (Ann M. Martin, creator/author of The Baby-sitter's Club)&#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 truly consider BETSY AND TACY GO DOWNTOWN to be the finest novel in the English language! I will never love any other books as much as I love the Betsy-Tacy books.&#8221; (Claudia Mills, children's book author, winner of National Book Award and Golden Kite Award)&#8220;Pure bliss.... 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.&#8221; (Mary Kay Andrews, New York Times bestselling author)