The book, along with the entire Betsy-Tacy and Deep Valley series, was republished in 2000 by HarperTrophy with a new cover art illustrated by Michael Koelsch.

[1] Betsy, Tacy, and Tib are three eight-year-old girls who live in Deep Valley, Minnesota.

After Tacy recovers from a bout of diphtheria, the girls decide to cut off locks of their hair so they each have a keepsake of the others.

They cut off one of Betsy's braids, half of Tacy's long red ringlets, and half of Tib's yellow curls, and divide the hair into pillboxes that they can each wear as lockets.

Their parents are furious until they hear the girls' reasoning which makes them laugh.