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Apr 24, 2009

Abigail rated it:

A worthy follow-up to Betsy-Tacy, Maud Hart Lovelace's first book about two (eventually three) young girls growing up in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Minnesota, Betsy-Tacy and Tib is a humorous and heartwarming celebration of childhood friendship, and only increased my appreciation of the characters, the author, and the series.

Picking up roughly two years after the first title, when Betsy Ray, Tacy Kelly and Tib Muller are eight years old, it follows the three best fri More...

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Jun 10, 2008

Lisa rated it:

This book shows such an idyllic childhood, even in an era before vaccination was available for diphtheria. While my childhood experiences were significantly different, there was much familiar here. Maud Hart Lovelace really remember what it feels like to be a child.

I particularly enjoyed the story of the three haircuts. The Everything Pudding story was fun as well.

For adults who have missed this book, even if you grew up many years after Maud Hart Lovelace’s time, you’ll More...

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Oct 22, 2007

Carmen rated it:

Betsy-Tacy and Tib" is the follow up to the popular "Betsy-Tacy". The book pretty much picks up where "Betsy-Tacy" leaves off. In this book, the girls get a third friend named Tib, a cute blonde girl who had moved to Deep Valley with her family from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It didn't take very long for the two girls to hit it off with Tib.
It quickly becomes apparent that Tib is more adventurous and free-spirited which gets Betsy and Tacy into heaps of trouble but wha More...

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Sep 16, 2007

Beth rated it:

I have no idea where I got these books, but I had the whole series -- starting from when Betsy, Tacy and Tib were in first grade, and ending with "Betsy and the World" where she's a famous journalist, and she's travelling the world alone, on a steamer ship, because she just broke off her engagement ... well, I don't want to give it all away. These books are soooo fun, and simple and innocent, but the girls are always having a great time. They really inspired me, especially to write, More...

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May 30, 2011

Sunhi rated it:

After reading the first book, I decided to immediately get the second book from the library. While I'm happy that I've continued to read, I wasn't as into Betsy-Tacy and Tib. I think with the addition of Tib, I realized something -- I didn't really enjoy Tacy as much as I adored Betsy and Tib! Betsy's imaginative nature and Tib's pragmatic nature are extremes that play off well against each other and make them fun to read. Tacy's defining trait of shyness isn't as enjoyable to read though I More...

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Oct 21, 2011

Audrey rated it:

I think I like this one even more than Betsy-Tacy. Maud's descriptions are balm to my soul. For example: “It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside” (p. 4). Such a beautiful turn of phrase. I also really love all of her descriptions of wildflowers and sunsets. :)

For some of the things they did, like the flying (Chapter 2 and 3), I thought that it seemed a bit odd that eight-year-olds wouldn’t know that you can’t fly. But More...

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Apr 01, 2011

Tiffani rated it:

I liked this book even more than the first, which is saying something. :) It brings me back to my childhood when I used to make potions with toothpaste, lemon juice and other fun pastes and liquids I could find around the house. I think every child likes to experiment with and mull over in their minds what careers they could choose (ex. chemistry, business, etc.) and what life will be like when they're grown. I loved joining this threesome as they played and discovered in childlike ways.
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Oct 19, 2011

Bluerose's rated it:

Betsy-Tacy and Tib is by far my favorite of the first three books! There were two stories in this book that really made me laugh! They were just so incredibly cute!

One is when the girls decide to cut each others hair. This story really reminded me of one of my childhood adventures. I didn't have any friends persuading me, though. I saw my momma getting a haircut, and naturally I decided I needed a haircut, too! I have very short hair in my kindergarten picture.

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Sep 08, 2007

Elizabeth rated it:

As much as I loved Betsy/Tacy I adore the fact that Tib became friends with Betsy and Tacy. She was the sweet but also was willing to be a little bit more naughty. She added a great dimension to the books.
The real Tib, in later life, lived in Chicago and my Aunt was a friend of hers and that is how I fell in love with the books.

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Dec 31, 2009

Rhiannon rated it:

Betsy-Tacy and Tib is the second book in the Betsy-Tacy series. In this book, Betsy and Tacy meet Tib(short for Thelma). Tib is rich and lives in a huge house. All three girls become friends, and have amazing adventures. In this book, the girls are eight. Lovelace's series continues through high school, and finally, to when Betsy is married.
As in the last book, Betsy has an incredible imagination. Especially after Tacy gets sick. In the book, Tacy gets diptheria, so after she gets better, More...

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Jan 04, 2010

Heidi rated it:

There is something that this series reminds me of, or a compilation of somethings. But I haven't quite figured it out, yet. I do have reminiscence of the books I read in 3rd-5th grade. This second in the series is, again, a telling of a few tales, but this time in a friend trio instead of a duo. At the beginning of the book, I was only so-so about them. But by the end, I just couldn't help finding them endearing. The writing is not bad, but it's not the greatest I've encountered. It's the charac More...

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Feb 05, 2012

Tracy rated it:

The second book in the Betsy-Tacy series is just as fun as the first one. Surprisingly, the addition of a third girl, Tib, does not result in the usual "third wheel" syndrome in playtime dynamics. Several of my favorite adventures were a visit to see The Flying Lady at the carnival, and a disastrous haircutting episode that leaves each girl with huge chunks of hair missing from one side of her head! Following the hair debacle, they start a "Be Good" club that backfires when t More...

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Mar 08, 2011

Megan rated it:

Yup, still love these books. The girls are starting to be grown up at the end of this book, what with the becoming 10 - that is, having two numbers in their age, so our own reading of the series will take a break for a little while now. Madeleine is captivated now - i wonder if she will enjoy reading this as she grows older?

I think one of the things that really entrances me in these books is the description of really normal little girls - creative, playful, girls with a childhood. T More...

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Jun 30, 2009

Lawrence rated it:

I am going through the Betsy-Tacy books at the instance of a friend. First, I continue to love the pictures. Second, this second of the series goes beyond the "feelings" of childhood life so well described in the first one. It becomes far more complicated. I love the chapters on the The Christian Kindness Club. I think an old fashioned reader (like me) would enjoy how it represents St. Paul's discourse in the letter to the Romans how the law gives rise to sin. Just so for the gir More...

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Jan 27, 2010

Christy rated it:

I first read this series when I was nine or ten, and I thought this book was the best. It's still good. I laughed all the way through it. It takes you back to turn-of-the century Wisconsin, when ladies did their hair in pompadours, and fathers were stern but kindly. Little girls always wore dresses, even when they were going outside to play (which of course gave them lots of opportunities to be naughty.) When the noon whistle blew at the mill, the children all ran home for "dinner." More...

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Oct 21, 2010

Amy rated it:

I have to say, I was a little skeptical at first when I started to read this book, but I am so glad that I kept with it. What a cute story. Betsy-Tacy and Tib are three adorable little girls who have an eye for adventure and being mischevious. No matter how hard they try NOT to get into trouble, it seems to always find them.
I would love it if we still lived in a time when our children could run and play freely in the streets and not have to be too worried about there safety. This was a gr More...

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Jan 22, 2012

Marie rated it:

This book was definitely way better than the first. There are adventures were more sophisticated; which was great, but also wasn't. The simplicity was nice before, the more complex simplicity is good, too. 'm not sure which I like best. Either way, these were really sweet. My favorite part was when they cut off their hair and Tacy's mother saved Tacy's hair in her bureau drawer. I also loved Aunt Dolly. I would have loved to see a wealthy Victorian lady.

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Mar 30, 2011

Chandra rated it:

This second installment in the beloved Betsy-Tacy series continues to delight! The previous book ended with Betsy and Tacy meeting the much anticipated new girl named Tib. Two years later the three girls, now eight years old, are an inseparable trio. Much like the first book this one is mostly episodic, chronicling the young friends' many little adventures and misadventures.

There are so many things that make this deceptively simple series so very remarkable. I'm amazed at how it i More...

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Dec 22, 2009

Melody rated it:

Re-reading this book hardly counts as reading, since I know it like the back of my hand. The entire series is so well-written and just plain fun that revisiting it is a treat. Lovelace's essential voice is unchanged throughout the series, yet she writes in a tone designed to engage readers of the characters' ages especially. My favorite part of this book is where Tib's family's "hired girl" Matilda catches them at mischief:

'"The dining room looks all right now," B More...

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Dec 08, 2009

Carrie rated it:

I’ve read the first two books of the series and, so far, I am growing fond of these books. I like that the books seem to be written for the age level the characters are, so the books grow with the reader. Betsy and Tacy are both charming little girls, who are good but do still get into a little trouble at times...I can’t wait to read further in the series as I’ve heard the books get even better as the girls get older.

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May 16, 2010

Marcy rated it:

At the age of 8 enter Tib and now the friends become a threesome. Three is never odd one out with these girls. They support each other in every way, including cutting their hair off so they can weave the three different colors together to put in handmade lockets thus declaring their friendship forever. They make a club about being good, they learn how to stay home alone- both not without mishaps, and they scoff at Tib's dad when he insists Tib will become a house wife. Betsy and Tacy know in th More...

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Oct 17, 2011

Cassandra rated it:

I didn't like this book quite as much as the first book, but it was still very cute. I can't see reading these books as an adult unless you read them as a child. However, I can easily picture reading them to a little girl. What fun adventures! My brother and I made a "everything pudding" only we were a bit more choosy about what we included. Ours was a fancy chili and actually turned out edible!

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Aug 17, 2009

Julie rated it:

This series is definitely a children's classic. I have borrowed them from my mom, who loves them, and I'm really glad I'm finally reading the series!

Book two is similar in tone to book one, with the trio of girls getting up to all kinds of shenanigans. The chapters about the hair incident and the club about "being good" cracked me up.

I am really looking forward to the rest of the series.

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Aug 26, 2011

Abbey rated it:

BOTTOM LINE: Another nice entry in what is for many women a most-beloved series from their youth. Three 9-year-old girls in a small town in mid-western America in the late 1890s quietly, and gently, grow up in loving and secure families. Nice bits of info concerning daily life, well-written, but rather slow for the adult reader for whom this is the first read.

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Jun 29, 2010

Carma rated it:

Another trip down memory lane: and it is so interesting to read an account of how children used to play, even a probably romanticized one. I feel sad that due to safety concerns (molesters, pit bulls, fast cars, guns, bullies, etc.) so few kids today get the chance to run around unsupervised in the way that children did 100 years ago.

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Sep 29, 2010

Jen rated it:

These were some of the first books I read as a little girl. I read them to Ashley and Brittany when they were little and couldn't yet read. Ashley read them when she was old enough and the tattered copies are still on our shelves for the little sisters to enjoy. Emily just found them and is delighted with the stories.

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Oct 03, 2011

Jamie rated it:

Another series I can't believe I missed as a young reader.

Just as good as the first Betsy-Tacy.

Just a sidenote: I discovered these books once again from my favourite movie You've Got Mail when Kathleen (Meg Ryan) is telling Annabel (Joe's Aunt) about them at her book store. Just couldn't resist.

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Jun 24, 2011

Cheryl in CC NV rated it:

Oh these girls try to be good, but they're so impulsive and imaginative, they get into all sorts of scrapes. And of course they learn lessons, but Lovelace is not at all didactic or preachy. I'm not sure that they're the right age though - aren't 8-year-olds likely to be a little more mature?

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Jul 27, 2011

Sharanne added it

You really have to be under ten the first time you read this. Like a wise woman in "You've Got Mail" said, "When you read something as a child it becomes a part of you like no other reading in your life." (not a perfect quote) but the idea is so true.

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Jan 08, 2010

Kiri rated it:

Three girls get into a lot more trouble than two! And perhaps nine-year-olds are a lot more creative in their mischief than five-year-olds. In either case, this was a fun little book filled with good humor and capturing the spirit of kids.

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