I felt terrible.’ He is to be separated from his parents for such a long time because ‘they were going to Europe with about fifty other very athletic people, and they were going to bicycle through five countries and sleep in fields and barns’. Throughout, Tom is an intriguing character, built of so many different elements that he often surprises.Īt the start of the story, Tom is told that he is going to stay with his Aunt Millie ‘for two whole months. It has been five years, but when I close my eyes I am once again by the creek watching the black fox come leaping over the green, green grass’. His narrative voice has been used throughout: ‘Sometimes at night when the rain is beating against the windows of my room, I think about that summer on the farm. They are both pilots, and the bottom floor of their house is a hangar so they can taxi out and take off, almost from their front yard.The novel’s protagonist is nine-year-old Tom, and his story is told in retrospect.
As she began to read to her children, her interest in writing for young people began.īetsy lives with her husband Ed on an air strip in South Carolina.
She began her writing career five years after her graduation by publishing short magazine articles.
She especially values her many state awards which were voted on by the readers of the state.īetsy attended public schools in North Carolina and graduated from Queens College in Charlotte, NC with a major in English. Among them are the Newbery Medal in 1971 for her novel T he Summer of the Swans, the American Book Award in 1981 for The Night Swimmers, The Edgar (for the best mystery for young people) in 1992 for Wanted.Mud Blossom and the Regina Medal by the Catholic Library Association for the body of her work. Her books have been translated into nineteen languages and she gets thousands of letters from readers in the United States and from all over the world. Her first book was published in 1962 and since then she has published regularly. Betsy Byars has written over sixty books for young people.
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