He scoops them out with a spoon, they laugh at this and how the threat of the fact you might have the bushbaby spoon is used to stop Hazeline's overeating. The dad finds it amusing that there are babies in it's pouch.
The animal killing was brutal, they kill a bush baby and they all laugh at it being the most ugly thing they have every seen. I loved the relationship between Tommy and Petie, their friendship was wonderful, I loved their love of reading, their letters to each other and the way that although Tommy was bored at first, his boredom led him to discover new wonders. Without this awful treatment of animals and the way Hazeline's engagement was broken off because it was in common agreement she need to lose a stone or more, this would have been a 4:or 5 star. There was such depressing animal cruelty in this book which was of course completely realistic of the time this was set.
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.A very hard book to rate. 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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