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Old 06-22-2016, 05:54 PM
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The Baby-Sitters Club Series #3 - Kristy Had A Great Idea!

The Baby-Sitters Club Appreciation Thread



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The Baby-sitters Club (BSC) is a series of children's books, written by Ann M. Martin and published by Scholastic between 1986–2000, that sold 176 million copies.

The series is about a group of middle school students living in the fictional town of Stoneybrook, Connecticut. They run a business called the Baby-sitters Club that helps parents find babysitters from the club available for jobs by calling during their club meetings. Meetings take place Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 5:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. The club runs financially on dues and fundraising, and the babysitters write diaries of their jobs to help each other. The members of the club are also best friends, although they go through many conflicts throughout the series.

The club starts out with four members (Kristy Thomas, Mary Anne Spier, Claudia Kishi, and Stacey McGill), eventually expanding to ten. All of the main characters are thirteen, with the exception of junior members Mallory Pike and Jessica Ramsey, who are two years younger. When the club was founded (in 1986), the four members were in the seventh grade, but ten books later (1988), they are promoted to the eighth grade. From there, they are frozen in time until the very end of the series (2000), in which they graduate from middle school.


THEY'RE BACK!

Now, ten years after the final BSC book, they’re back. Martin has written a prequel, The Summer Before, delving into the lives of the original four baby-sitters before the club started. It was released yesterday, and to celebrate, Women in Children’s Media and Scholastic sponsored a special event, “The Baby Sitters are Back.” Attendees were treated to an intimate conversation between Martin and David Levithan, editorial director at Scholastic. He first started working on the BSC with Martin as a 19-year-old intern, and knew stuff about the series that even the most die-hard super fans in attendance didn’t. Levithan told the audience that introducing Martin was “like introducing Sarah Palin at a tea party event,” and it was true. She laughed as he said this, and took her seat to hearty applause. - link to text

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see i knew you could do it melis
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i adore this thread title and I know Colleen will when she sees it, too. Thank you!
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Thanks for the new thread!
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Colleen, do you like the title?
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Colleen, do you like the title?
Yes I do.

I have been getting the urge to re read some of the books lately. They were light hearted and fun.
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I like that about the books.
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I do too, that's why I am glad I have the complete collection.
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I know nothing about the books, but I am glad there is a new thread for all of you.
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my niece likes the books now too.
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I'm glad. Generations are loving them.


I was excited because some of my 4th graders like the books. Then I found out that they are reading the graphic novels. Has anyone seen them? Ugh.
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