My poor, neglected blog. I knew it had been a long time, but I hadn’t realized it had been over two months. Sheesh! And it’s not like I’ve quite dropped off the face of the earth or stopped reading–just the usual very busy fall. So what brings me back, finally, to this little corner of [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Maud Hart Lovelace’
Evangelism
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Betsy-Tacy, Maud Hart Lovelace on November 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Head and Heart
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Beverly Cleary, Maud Hart Lovelace, women's history on February 23, 2011 | 2 Comments »
College was never really a question for me. I was one of the “smart” kids, and my parents had gone to college. Somehow, it wasn’t until I got to college and was knee deep in a women’s history class that I realized that this whole higher education for women was all relatively recent. Again, I [...]
A Tale of Two Emilys
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Emily of Deep Valley, Emily of New Moon, L. M. Montgomery, Maud Hart Lovelace on December 15, 2010 | 12 Comments »
It’s gotta be tough having a star for a sister. You know you’re special, but how do you get your chance to shine? If in some alternate universe, all of an author’s creations were to meet, would Emily Starr get in a cat fight with Anne Shirley? Would Emily Webster be jealous of Betsy Ray? I’ve always [...]
Beyond the frontier
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged All-of-a-Kind Family, Betsy-Tacy, Great Brain, John D. Fitzgerald, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little House, Maud Hart Lovelace, Sydney Taylor on March 9, 2010 | 7 Comments »
At my museum, we get a lot of school tours. Sometimes, we even get survey responses or comments or samples of the lesson plans teachers use to prep for the field trip. Generally speaking, this makes me very, very happy. And generally speaking, I’m amazed to see how creative teachers are in connecting their textbooks [...]
Isn’t that romantic?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged All-of-a-Knd Family, Anne Shirley, Betsy Ray, Frances Hodgson Burnett, L. M. Montgomery, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little House, Maud Hart Lovelace, Sydney Taylor, The Secret Garden on February 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Minnesota Post recently made a list of best Dynamic Duos–in movies, literature, history, etc. And on it, much to the pleasure of the Betsy-Tacy Society and other BT fans is Betsy and Joe as “Literary Romantic Couples”–alongside some couples that are definitely not found in children’s literature. And though I certainly adore the fact [...]
Wanting to know more. . .
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged L. M. Montgomery, Louisa May Alcott, Maud Hart Lovelace on December 27, 2009 | 6 Comments »
A big part of the intrigue with kidlit history is the idea that there’s always more to discover. These favorite stories are based on something within the author’s life, which should make the biographer or historian tingle with anticipation. But, because these were written for children, these authors are rarely given the same consideration that [...]
The best presents. . .
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged A Little Princess, Anne of Green Gables, Betsy and Joe, Christmas, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Heaven to Betsy, L. M. Montgomery, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little House, Little Women, Louisa May Alcott, Maud Hart Lovelace, Roller Skates, Ruth Sawyer on December 22, 2009 | 6 Comments »
I admit it–my favorite part of Christmas just might be presents. And it’s not so much the receiving (though don’t get me wrong–I do love receiving), but the giving. It’s the joy in finding just the right thing, something that is more than the sum of its parts, and seeing the reaction when it hits its mark. [...]
The beginning
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Betsy Ray, Heaven to Betsy, Maud Hart Lovelace on October 20, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Thus far, the vast majority of books that I’ve talked about here are ones I first read as a child. I grew up with Anne and Jo and Laura. But there’s one very important exception. I didn’t discover Betsy Ray until I was an adult–halfway through college. Oh, I had heard about the Betsy-Tacy books, largely [...]
Pilgrimages
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Anne of Green Gables, Betsy-Tacy, historic sites, L. M. Montgomery, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little House, Little Women, Louisa May Alcott, Maud Hart Lovelace on October 18, 2009 | 3 Comments »
This afternoon, while attempting to be domestic, I caught up with one of my favorite NPR programs, This American Life. A few weeks ago, they aired a new episode called “The Book That Changed Your Life.” How could I not listen? The entire show was fantastic, but I was particularly intrigued by Act 4: Little [...]
Everybody poops. . .
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Great Brain, Heaven to Betsy, John D. Fitzgerald, Maud Hart Lovelace on September 28, 2009 | 2 Comments »
For anyone who spends any time with children, there are certain questions and subjects that come up over and over again. Subjects like bathrooms and poop. At a museum like ours, this comes up fairly frequently. We have outhouses, including one two-seater (glamour!). We also have donkeys–you can always tell when they poop in front [...]
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