Hart Lovelace's Betsy Tacy books are like perpetual Summer. They are innocent, tender and delightful.
Difficulties arise, but never overpower the residents of Deep Valley, Minnesota.
Particularly not the Ray family-one of childhood literature's few intact and fully functional families. Our favorites are therefore the final two, Betsy in the Great World and Betsy's Wedding, but there isn't a clinker in the bunch. Each book is full of fun, good humor and real characters-who have believable scrapes and escapes. They are Winona's Pony Cart, Carney's House Party, and Emily of Deep Valley. They are as delightful as the Betsy-Tacy books, but unfortunately are not currently being reprinted, and are sometimes difficult to locate.