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 […]
Cute counselors, cabin pranks, new friendships, campfire singalongs, color wars, and canoeing—ah, summer camp. My love for all things camp-related started with the amazing (and amazingly difficult to find now) 1985 TV movie Poison Ivy, starring Michael J. Fox and Nancy McKeon. Then I discovered The Baby-Sitters Club: Super Special #2, Baby-sitters Summer Vacation, in […]
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 […]
