![]() ![]() ![]() Given that the first book was published in 1940, some of the ideas and phrasing are dated (regarding gender roles, different cultures) but not offensive. There's surprising depth to the early simplicity when Tacy's baby sister dies, the girls talk about where she must be, and in later years, they like to sit on the fence and talk about God. Similar to the Little House on the Prairie books, the girls' early lives are filled with paper dolls, games packed with imagination rather than toys, and in later books, horseless carriages, travel, love, loss, and an appreciation that the world is a big, complicated place. Parents need to know that Maud Hart Lovelace's Betsy-Tacy series about three white girlfriends is a gentle walk through the idealized simplicity of life in the Midwest in the 1940s. ![]()
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