''Betsy and Tacy Go Over the Big Hill'' (1942) is the third volume in the

Betsy-Tacy The ''Betsy-Tacy ''books are a series of semi-autobiographical novels by American novelist and short-story writer Maud Hart Lovelace (1892-1980), which were originally published between 1940 and 1955 by the Thomas Y. Crowell Co. The books are now ...

series by

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. The book, along with the entire ''Betsy-Tacy'' and ''Deep Valley'' series, was republished in 2000 by

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with a new cover art illustrated by Michael Koelsch.

Plot overview

While the first two volumes are something like collections of

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about Betsy, Tacy, and Tib, this one has a story through the whole volume. The girls are competing with Betsy's and Tacy's older sisters about having a Queen of Summer. When they go out to collect votes, they find themselves making friends with a surprising little girl their own age in the Little

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section of Deep Valley,

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Trivia

Betsy and Tacy first sing their "Cat Duet" at the school entertainment in this book.

References

Betsy-Tacy 1942 American novels Novels set in Minnesota 1942 children's books Thomas Y. Crowell Co. books Books with cover art by Michael Koelsch {{1940s-child-novel-stub