Every three years, the Betsy-Tacy Society, a nonprofit organization founded in 1990 to preserve the legacy of Maud Hart Lovelace’s novels, holds a convention in Mankato, Minnesota. The conventions are held to celebrate Lovelace and her books, especially the stories featuring Betsy Ray and friends in turn-of-the-century Deep Valley, Minnesota.
The convention was last week in Mankato and the keynote speaker on the closing day was Meg Cabot, author of numerous teen novels (Publishers Weekly: Betsy, Tacy, and Meg meet in Deep Valley). Cabot says that she has been a huge fan of the Betsy-Tacy books since she read them at the age of 30.
She spoke of her love for the Betsy-Tacy books and compared them to her own books. She said, “The spirit of the books are kind of the same even though the Betsy Tacy books are set 100 years ago. They are still about girls that have problems with boys, problems with friends. So, it’s basically kind of the same spirit.”
SIL owns many of the Betsy-Tacy books and the High School titles (two novels in each volume) will be reissued in the fall by HarperCollins. Cabot wrote the forward for Betsy was a Junior and Betsy and Joe.
via PW Children’s Bookshelf
posting by Lorraine (I joined the Betsy-Tacy Society in the early 90s but lapsed in my membership, I think that I might need to look into it again)
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