MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM BETSY

by Carolyn Haywood ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 9, 1970

. . . and Carolyn Haywood, reads the jacket, a nicety that nevertheless doesn't convey the contents--eight holiday episodes from earlier Betsy books plus two new ones, forming an intelligible, generally non-repetitive sequence centering on little sister Star. Today adults may demur at, and children challenge, her providential arrival on Christmas Eve (at home, unattended by a doctor), just the present Betsy wanted from Santa; and anyone who's gone through the formalities of entering kindergarten might well boggle at Star's getting her Christmas wish the very day she turns five. But the innocence that's always been bliss for Betsy and her following has its charms--Father's story of Little Claus and the godmother whose daily present no matter how large or how small always fit in the sock (Betsy: ""Oh, I know. They were stretch socks""); the birds' Christmas tree festooned with popcorn and apple parings and especially peanut butter in orange skins that Father calls the first Garbage tree. Presentable certainly, with new illustrations that particularly enhance Lillybell, and no more specious than what has cheered little girls right along.

Pub Date: Sept. 9, 1970

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Morrow

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Sept. 1, 1970

Categories: FICTION