“Heavens to Betsy! It was pure bliss to slip away and into the world of these turn-of-the-century Minnesota girls, their families, their friends, their loves. It had been many, many years since I’d spent time with the enchanting Betsy Ray, but after reacquainting myself with these classics, I now realize that one of the reasons I believed I could someday become a writer was because of Betsy’s own infallible confidence that she would be a writer. Don’t worry if you don’t have a young person to buy these delicious books for—be selfish and give ’em to yourself.”
—Mary Kay Andrews,
New York Times bestselling author
“I grew up thirty miles north of Mankato, and trips to town were filled with mystery and magic because I was walking the same streets that Betsy and Tacy once walked. The Betsy-Tacy books…more than any other books, fed my dream of becoming a writer one day.”
—Jill Kalz, Minnesota Book Awards
Readers’ Choice Award winner
“At school visits, when kids ask what books I read as a child, I have only one answer: Betsy Tacy—the entire series…. Truthfully, I think those were the only books I read as a child. But they were enough to make me know that characters in books had true and honest feelings and that made all the difference.”
—Maryann Weidt, author of the Minnesota
Book Award-winning picture book
Daddy Played Music for the Cows
“As a Minnesota girl, I read the Betsy-Tacy books about a thousand times as a kid. I used to go to sleep at night with one of the books under my pillow whispering to myself about the girls, hoping I’d dream I was playing with them.”
—Anne Ursu, award-winning author
The Betsy-Tacy Books
Book 1: Betsy-Tacy
Book 2: Betsy-Tacy and Tib
Book 3: Betsy and Tacy Go Over the Big Hill
Book 4: Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown
Book 5: Heaven to Betsy
Book 6: Betsy in Spite of Herself
Book 7: Betsy Was a Junior
Book 8: Betsy and Joe
Book 9: Betsy and the Great World
Book 10: Betsy’s Wedding
The Deep Valley Books
Winona’s Pony Cart
Carney’s House Party
Emily of Deep Valley
Credits
Cover design by Robin Bilardello
Cover and spine illustrations by Vera Neville from the books’ original publication
Copyright
CARNEY’S HOUSE PARTY. Copyright © 1949 by Maud Hart Lovelace. WINONA’S PONY CART. Copyright © 1953 by Maud Hart Lovelace. Foreword copyright © 2010 by Melissa Wiley. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
Carney’s House Party was first published in 1949 by Thomas Y. Crowell Company. First Harper Trophy edition published 2000.
Winona’s Pony Cart was first published in 1953 by Thomas Y. Crowell Company. First Harper Trophy edition published 2000.
FIRST HARPER PERENNIAL MODERN CLASSICS EDITION PUBLISHED 2010.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available upon request.
EPub Edition © MAY 2011 ISBN: 978-0-06-209427-8
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