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Skinny Dip with Kathleen Baxter

May 22, 2018April 10, 2018 by Vicki Palmquist

Kathleen Baxter, a librarian for more than 30 years, a nationally-known booktalker, a co-author of the wonderful Gotcha! resource books, is best known as the woman who has worked tirelessly to keep Maud Hart Lovelace’s books in print, thereby introducing new generations of readers to the Betsy-Tacy books and the other cherished novels set in Deep Valley. Her most recent book, My Betsy-Tacy Miracle: a Literary Pilgrimage to Deep Valley, shares the charming, true story of Kathleen’s meeting and correspondence with the author Maud Hart Lovelace. … more

Perspective

March 8, 2016February 23, 2016 by Vicki Palmquist

At Bookology, we believe the adage about “the right book for the right reader.” Those are not necessarily the books that we see in advertisements, in the bloggers’ buzz, or on award lists. Only by listening to each other, and especially to kids, talk about books do we find those gems our hearts were looking for but didn’t know existed.… more

Laughter and Grief

October 22, 2015October 6, 2015 by Vicki Palmquist

by Vicki Palmquist There are books we remember all of our lives, even if we can’t remember the details. Sometimes we can’t even remember the story, but we remember the characters and how they made us feel. We recall being transported into the pages of the book, seeing what the characters see, hearing what they hear, and understanding the time and spaces and breathing in and out of the characters.… more

The Betsy Books

July 1, 2015June 11, 2015 by Melanie Heuiser Hill

by Melanie Heuiser Hill My daughter and I are finishing what we call “The Betsy Books” — the wonderful series of books by Maud Hart Lovelace that follows Betsy Ray and her friends as they grow up in Deep Valley, Minnesota. When I first read the Betsy Series, I started with Betsy and the Great World and Betsy’s Wedding and did not discover the earlier books until we moved to Minnesota, where they were all gathered together on a shelf in the library.… more

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