Understood Betsy - Softcover

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 1591668646 ISBN 13: 9781591668640

Publisher: Journeyforth, 2008

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A total life change. That s what Elizabeth Ann gets when she goes to visit her Vermont relatives, the Putneys. First of all, they call her Betsy, instead of Elizabeth Ann. But they don t just change her name. They change her whole life. Things she has never done before, she is suddenly expected to do things like driving a wagon, taking care of kittens, and doing her own hair. At first Betsy doesn t know what to think. And then she realizes that life on the Putney farm is much more exciting than life in the prim old city house."

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Understood Betsy is as satisfying in its evocation of an earlier, simpler way of life as Laura Ingalls Wilder s Little House books, and psychologically more acute. Fisher is a master of presenting, in a low-key, humorous way, a New Englandy way of doing and saying things . . . Understood Betsy is sure to delight a new generation of very busy, over-scheduled children whose own chances for early independence and initiative are limited. It may even teach their parents a thing or two about the best way to raise a child. The New York Times Book Review"

-Understood Betsy is as satisfying in its evocation of an earlier, simpler way of life as Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books, and psychologically more acute. Fisher is a master of presenting, in a low-key, humorous way, a 'New Englandy' way of doing and saying things . . . Understood Betsy is sure to delight a new generation of very busy, over-scheduled children whose own chances for early independence and initiative are limited. It may even teach their parents a thing or two about the best way to raise a child.---The New York Times Book Review

"Understood Betsy is as satisfying in its evocation of an earlier, simpler way of life as Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books, and psychologically more acute. Fisher is a master of presenting, in a low-key, humorous way, a 'New Englandy' way of doing and saying things . . . Understood Betsy is sure to delight a new generation of very busy, over-scheduled children whose own chances for early independence and initiative are limited. It may even teach their parents a thing or two about the best way to raise a child."--The New York Times Book Review

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