In the year 1989, somewhere between the launch of the Space Shuttle Atlantis and the U.S. invasion of Panama, I read 20 "Baby-Sitters Club" books. I was 8 years old. I’d recently had my first ...

The formula of each Baby-Sitters Club book is simple. And all 131 volumes ... But when I read it as a 7- or 8-year-old girl, I remember feeling a vicious contempt for Dawn, a contempt so ferocious ...

(BSC No. 8: Boy-Crazy Stacey especially piqued ... I almost always carried a Baby-Sitters Club book with me wherever I went, and proudly read them on the school bus, under my desk during class ...

"Just about every 8- to 13-year-old American girl alive ... A composite image of three versions of first The Baby-Sitters Club book, Kristy's Great Idea. On the left is the original from 1986 ...

There are not one but two Baby-Sitters Club books with “phantom” in the title ... so she clearly has her own issues to deal with. 8. We all need a friend with big ideas Kristy may be bossy ...

I started pondering the conundrum of nostalgia when I discovered the Stuck in Stoneybrook podcast, which analyzes The Baby-Sitters Club, book by book. The Ann M. Martin series, which spanned 131 ...

By the time the series – which became The Baby-Sitters Club, penned in large part by children’s author Ann M. Martin – finished its run in 2000, ran to 213 books, and sold an astonishing 176 ...

points out, all of the graphic novel adaptations of the original books have been on best-seller ... Much like the Goosebumps series, The Baby-Sitters Club was one of the first to target girls ...