I know I read some of the books in this series when I was in the eight to ten-year-old age range. Maud once stated that the three couldn’t have been closer if they’d been sisters.
Maud, Bick, and Midge became lifelong friends. Tib’s character was based on another playmate, Marjorie (Midge) Gerlach, who lived nearby in a large house designed by her architect father. Among its many children was a girl Maud’s age, Frances, nicknamed Bick, who was to be Maud’s best friend and the model for Tacy Kelly. Shortly before Maud’s fifth birthday a “large merry Irish family" moved into the house directly across the street. When Maud was a few months old, the Hart family moved two blocks up the street to 333 Center.
The street, Center Street, dead-ended at one of the town’s many hills. Maud’s birthplace was a small house on a hilly residential street several blocks above Mankato’s center business district. “That dear family" was the model for the fictional Ray family. Her sister, Kathleen, was three years older, and her other sister, Helen, was six years younger. She was the middle of three children born to Thomas and Stella (Palmer) Hart. |n Requires OverDrive Read (file size: N/A KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 3068 KB) or Kobo app or compatible Kobo device (file size: N/A KB) or Amazon Kindle (file size: N/A KB).Maud Hart Lovelace was born on April 25, 1892, in Mankato, Minnesota. Ever since their first publication in the 1940s, the Betsy-Tacy stories have been loved by each generation of young readers. But Betsy, Tacy, and Tib always manage to have a good time.
They cook up awful messes in the kitchen, throw mud on each other and pretend to be beggars, and cut off each other's hair.
Sometimes they quarrel with Betsy's and Tacy's bossy big sisters, but they never quarrel among themselves. The grown-ups think they will quarrel, but they don't. Then Tib moves into the neighborhood and the three of them start to play together. |a Three of a Kind Betsy and Tacy are best friends. |a Betsy-tacy and tib |h : |b Betsy-tacy series, book 2.
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