Lois Lenski
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Lois Lenore Lenski Covey was a Newbery Medal-winning author and illustrator of picture books and children's literature. Beginning in 1927 with her first books, Skipping Village and Jack Horner's Pie:
High school graduation photo of Lois Lenski
One of Lenski's illustrations for the 1922 John Lane edition of Kenneth Grahame's Dream Days.
Betsy-Tacy
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The Betsy-Tacy books are a series of semi-autobiographical novels by American novelist and short-story writer Maud Hart Lovelace, which were originally published between 1940 and 1955 by the Thomas Y.
Lois Lenski
…other authors, including the first edition of The Little Engine that Could by Watty Piper (1930), and the first four volumes of Maud Hart Lovelace's Betsy-Tacy series (1940–1943). In 1967 Lenski established the Lois Lenski Covey Foundation, which provides grants for book purchases to libraries and organizations…
Mankato's Carnegie Library. Betsy visits its Deep Valley equivalent for the first time in Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown.
"Betsy's House," 333 Center Street, Mankato
Tacy's House