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Betsy's Busy Summer
(Betsy #7)
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School is out for the summer! Betsy and her friends can't wait to run races and climb trees. There are more good times ahead as Betsy and Billy prepare to sell a strange sort of lemonade and try to fry an egg on the sidewalk. The summerhouse in Betsy's big yard is everyone's favorite place to play until the neighbors build a swimming pool. Betsy and her friends quickly for
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Paperback, 176 pages
Published
May 1st 1989
by Yearling
(first published August 1st 1956)
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A very gentle book. Almost timeless. Just a tiny bit sexist... no more than Walmart girls' and boys' departments are now. Funny, but with good lessons. I would have loved it when I was a young child in the 60s. A little younger and sweeter than Beverly Cleary's classics.
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One of my favorite Betsy books and my son really enjoyed it too, asking for chapter after chapter. Betsy's summer is full of the delights of childhood and summertime and, while taking place in the 1940s/50s, I think most modern children would still delight in them if they had the opportunity. There's the fun of trying to find a substitute sound for the ice cream truck bell when it goes out of order (and getting to ride along on the truck, too); the neighborhood kids trying to fry an egg on the s
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I adored the Betsy books when I was a kid, and I recently re-read the three listed here. I smiled the whole way through (which probably made fellow ferry passengers think I was insane). There's just something so comforting about these books for me--the wholesome 1940s values, the neighborhood really being like one big family, the general goodwill and lack of anything bad every happening. I still adore the Betsy books, but they're never going to be popular again--kids today aren't going to have t
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This one was free of any questionable issues. I really like the idea of kids playing outside all day, the village raising of children, etc.
I have been looking for these books everywhere and I am so glad to have finally found them! While my friends in elementary school were always checking out the more "popular" books in the library, I found myself coming back to this series again and again. I'm pretty sure I read every book in the series at least twice! I'm a little perturbed to discover that they've been re-released with a more modern cover, because I actually prefer the vintage look. Brings back so many memories and should I stum
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This book is good, it is not as adventurous as i like. But it is still good. It is about kids, and what they do in the summer. I recommend it to age-group 9-10, it's like real-life, you can relate.
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I am fairly certain that I read quite a few of the 'Betsy' books by Carolyn Haywood in my childhood. I remember bits and pieces, and want to revisit them again. The copy of this book I received from the library is a hardcover from the 1950's, and the pages have that soft feel from being turned many, many times through the years, and the whole book just feels like nostalgia at its' finest. Obviously a fairly quick read, but laugh out loud funny, and the author's illustrations are charming, which
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I read this book to myself many times as a kid and it was really fun to read to my 7 year old.
This charming book takes readers back to a simpler era. Betsy, her sister Star and her friends spend the summer having all kinds of adventures doing some things children still do now (lemonade stand, watching things get built, chasing the ice cream truck). Some of their escapades raise eyebrows, like stuffing 11 people in a station wagon to go to a hayride and letting children use not one, but two, knives to break a string! Unfortunately, this book is out of print.
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Realistic fiction became immensely popular during this decade, and this 1956 title is a wonderful example. Betsy and her friends are just like any other children of the times, but a light is cast on their adventures, games, and mishaps that remind many of the more timeless qualities of childhood, and that imagination is for the ages.
Betsy is a classic series from Caroly Haywood. As soon as school lets out Betsy and her friend are free to do whatever they want with their summer. Antics include trying to fry an egg on the sidewalk or just having fun at a watermelon party. There is never dull moment between Betsy and her friends.
Great for boys or girls ages 8-10 who love classic books.
Great for boys or girls ages 8-10 who love classic books.
Oct 13, 2011
Esther May
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I think this is probably my favorite Betsy book so far. It includes all of my favorite things to do in the summer: icecream, swimming, watermelon, friends and lemonade. I love this Betsy book series.
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Another great Betsy adventure. I have really enjoyed reading this series with Annie!! Makes me feel like a kid again!
Enjoyable highjinks of ordinary children, but not up to Ramona the Pest or Clementine standards. Found it in the summer rental and was happy to read it, though.
In First Grade, I would borrow these from the ancient Riverton Elementary library. I LOVED these books. They bring back such good mems!!
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