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Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown
Children's fiction
Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown
Book 4 of the Betsy-Tacy series
224 pages · First published 1943
Betsy Ray is finally old enough to go downtown by herself, opening a new world of library visits, shopping, cultural events, and people beyond her immediate neighborhood. She discovers the public library and becomes increasingly serious about her dream of becoming a writer. Tacy remains her closest companion while new acquaintances expand Betsy’s sense of what adult life might contain. Maud Hart Lovelace’s fourth Betsy-Tacy book captures the excitement of a child’s world becoming geographically and intellectually larger, especially through books and the freedom to explore a town independently.
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Blackface/minstrel-show material and racist performance traditions; period racial stereotypes; children secretly read sensational 'dime novels'; mild childhood deception/misbehavior.
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