I have a confession to make: I love, love, love The Baby-Sitter’s Club books. And not in the same way everyone loves them: I literally wrote my college-admissions essay on how much I loved the BSC. They were the first books I ever truly fell for, the first books I read over and over again. They were the […]
Confession: I wasn’t just a reader of the Baby-Sitter’s Club books, I was a card-carrying member of the fan club. (Membership came with a free lipstick mirror!) I obsessed over every Claudia outfit change and bump in Mary Anne’s relationship status, and dutifully reread the agonizingly repetitive club backstory that appeared at the start of […]
I’ve never been on a cruise, but if ever I earn my sealegs on an epic journey to the Galapagos or circle the southern tip of Africa, there are certain books I’d take. It’s not because they immortalize the feeling of viewing the setting sun from an upper deck promenade or romanticize the inherently un-romantic […]
Everyone has their comfort reading material. For interminably 13-year-old Claudia Kishi, it’s Nancy Drew books, stashed all over her room. For me—and other ’80s and ’90s kids and their nostalgia-loving offspring—it’s Ann M. Martin’s The Baby-Sitters Club. And even though no new BSC books are currently being published, there’s still plenty of material to choose […]