![]() The fanciful adventures are provided by Betsy's active imagination and her love of telling stories. ![]() The adventures between the two friends range from the real life (such as going to school for the first time, making a playhouse out of a piano box, and dressing up to go calling) to the extraordinarily fanciful (such as being taken for a ride in the milkman's magic wagon by his talking horse, and flying away on a cloud while enjoying a picnic). The book, along with the entire Betsy-Tacy and Deep Valley series, was republished in 2000 by HarperTrophy with a new cover art illustrated by Michael Koelsch. This first book is set in roughly 1898-1899. It takes place in fictional Deep Valley, Minnesota, based on Mankato, Minnesota, the author's home town. The book is mostly about the adventures of five-year-old Betsy Ray and her new best friend, Tacy Kelly. ![]() Betsy-Tacy (1940) is the first volume in the Betsy-Tacy series by Maud Hart Lovelace. ![]()
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