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Understood Betsy

First published: 1916
Pages: 115

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01 – Aunt Harriet Has a Cough
24:21
02 – Betsy Holds the Reins
23:24
03 – A Short Morning
20:12
04 – Betsy Goes to School
13:54
05 – What Grade is Betsy
18:51
06 – If You Don’t Like Conversation in a Book Skip this Chapter
24:07
07 – Elizabeth Ann Fails in an Examination
23:17
08 – Betsy Starts a Sewing Society
22:33
09 – The New Clothes Fail
20:38
10 – Betsy Has A Birthday
42:08
11 – Understood Aunt Frances
50:22

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Nine-year-old Elizabeth Ann has been raised by two doting, nervous aunts who worry over her every cough and cut her food into small pieces. When illness forces them to send her to the Putney cousins on their Vermont farm, she dreads the horrid relatives she has heard so much about. Instead she finds cats to feed, butter to churn, a one-room schoolhouse, and grown-ups who calmly expect her to manage on her own. Slowly the fearful child becomes a capable one who barely recognizes herself. Dorothy Canfield Fisher, who helped bring Montessori ideas to America, wrote a warm children's story that is also a gentle argument for letting children learn by doing. This free PDF and EPUB edition keeps a beloved classic within easy reach.

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Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1879-1958) was an American novelist, essayist, and education reformer who brought the Montessori method to a wide audience in the United States. A longtime resident of Vermont, she served on the original Book of the Month Club selection board and shaped the reading of a generation.