Betsy and Tacy Go Over the Big Hill

{{Short description|Book by Maud Hart Lovelace}}

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| genre = Children's fiction

| set_in = Deep Valley, Minnesota (1902)

| publisher = Thomas Y. Crowell Co.

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| pub_date = 1942

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| pages = 171

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| preceded_by = Betsy-Tacy and Tib (1941)

| followed_by = Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown (1943)

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Betsy and Tacy Go Over the Big Hill (1942) is the third volume in the Betsy-Tacy series by Maud Hart Lovelace.{{cite web |url=http://100bookseverychildshouldreadbeforegrowingup.com/tag/betsy-and-tacy-go-over-the-big-hill/|website=www.100bookseverychildshouldreadbeforegrowingup.com |title=Betsy and Tacy Go Over the Big Hill (this is a blog)|accessdate=1 March 2015 }}{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JexwwY36l3kC&q=Betsy+and+Tacy+Go+Over+the+Big+Hill&pg=PA415|website=www.google.com.au |title=Women of Minnesota: Selected Biographical Essays edited by Barbara Stuhler, Gretchen V. Kreuter|isbn=9780873513678 |accessdate=1 March 2015|last1=Stuhler |first1=Barbara |last2=Kreuter |first2=Gretchen V. |year=1998 |publisher=Minnesota Historical Society Press }}{{cite web |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704471504574447514006375536|website=www.wsj.com|title=What Little Girls Are Made Of: Author Meg Cabot on why the Betsy-Tacy books give today's teen lit a run for its money|date=3 October 2009|publisher=Wall Street Journal|accessdate=1 March 2015}} The book, along with the entire Betsy-Tacy and Deep Valley series, was republished in 2000 by HarperTrophy with a new cover art illustrated by Michael Koelsch.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Internet Archive Search: "michael koelsch"|url=https://archive.org/search.php?query=%22michael+koelsch%22&sin=TXT|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210628054440/https://archive.org/search.php?query=%22michael+koelsch%22&sin=TXT |archive-date=2021-06-28 |access-date=June 19, 2020|website=Internet Archive|language=en}}

Plot overview

While the first two volumes are something like collections of vignettes 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 Syria section of Deep Valley, Minnesota.

Trivia

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

References