The “Good Ol' Days” Chapter Books
You've just finished Understood Betsy, or All-of-a-Kind Family, and you want more books that “feel” like those; books when life was simple and good and revolved around family and (usually) small-town living.
The good news is, these exist, and they often come in a series!
Understood Betsy – Dorothy Canfield Fisher
All-of-a-Kind Family series – Sydney Taylor
“B” is for Betsy series – Carolyn Haywood
Betsy-Tacy series – Maud Hart Lovelace
Melendy Family series – Elizabeth Enright
Pollyanna – Eleanor H Porter
Charlotte Sometimes – Penelope Farmer
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm – Kate Douglas Wiggins
Anne of Green Gables series – L M Montgomery
The Secret Garden & A Little Princess – Frances Hodgson Burnett
Roller Skates & The Year of Jubilo – Ruth Sawyer
The “Shoes” series – Noel Streatfeild
Miracles on Maple Hill – Virginia Sorenson
The Moffats series – Eleanor Estes
Five Little Peppers series – Margaret Sidney
Daddy-Long-Legs – Jean Webster
Swallows and Amazons series – Arthur Ransome
Homer Price & More Homer Price (formerly Centerburg Tales) – Robert McCloskey
These two MODERN authors have tried to capture the same feeling. YOU determine how successful they are:
The Penderwicks series – Jeanne Birdsall
The VanderBeekers of 141st Street series – Karina Yan Glaser