Betsy-Tacy / Maud Hart Lovelace / 113 pages / Deceased Author Challenge

Somehow I had totally missed the Betsy and Tacy books while growing up and later while working as a children's librarian.  The author/illustrator Cheryl Harness recently mentioned them in her presentation at the Warrensburg Children's Literature Festival.  While I've only read/listened to the first one, I was delighted and plan to read on.  Ms. Lovelace has lovingly described life, and especially childhood, in twentieth century America.  This time of innocence, morals, manners, creativity, and imagination awakens a yearning for simpler times and freer children.