Revisiting a classic

Remember those wonderful Betsy-Tacy books (and later, Tib)? We've started reading the first one, Betsy-Tacy, about two five-year-old friends at the turn of the century, with Eliza and she's in looooove. Tim said that tonight as he turned the page and she caught a glimpse of Betsy and Tacy spreading out their paper dolls in the parlor, Lizey just sighed and said, in the dreamy voice of one who has seen the literary Promised Land, "Daddy, it's all just so ... beautiful."

Ian, on the other hand, isn't as easy to please in the fiction department, but we came up with a recent winner: Edward Eager's Knight's Castle. He's on his second reading through, and it looks as though dear Mr. Eager has more treasures in store for us. Let the salivating begin.