[Roger's Chica]

I am hilarious nostaglic for the Babysitter's Club right now. So lame and obviously ghostwritten (what with the characters changing personality book-to-book), but so awesome. So let's talk about them.

First of all, please tell me that I am not the only one here old enough to have read them while growing up.
Second, I have very much become Stacey since I grew up, minus the diabetes and all the money and the living in New York. This makes me sad.

Discuss.

[lakmé]

Oh how I loved these books. The one I remember most distinctly is the one with the autistic girl...was it Mary Anne that babysat for her?

I wanted to be them SO BAD.

[PappyCat]

I loved the books, and the movie, and the TV show! LOVE IT!

I actually just came across my old VHS of the movie not to long ago and watched it. Very nostalgic.

I also read Baby Sitter's Club Little Sister with Karen, Kristy's little sister. Goodtimes.

[Beagle On Stage]

[AnnieER25]

I, too, have the VHS and loved it. I used to stay up all night reading the books. I also watched the t.v. series, as well. I remember that my friends and I were going to start our own BSC, but alas, it never happened.

[Cake_in_Song]

Oh my Sondheim, yes! I was so obsessed with those books, even though I was a couple years too young to really appreciate them. I loved Babysitter's Little Sister best, and then moved on to the Babysitter's Club when I was older. They all seemed so grown up to me then.

[ConverseSneaker]

Oh yes. But I stopped reading them after I read all of the ten that my library owned at least twice.

[LesWickedPhantom]

I basically worshipped those books, and they basically dictated the course of my entire life. Kristy was my favorite, although I grew up to be a Mary Anne. My best friend is a Kristy-type though. Which is a little freaky.

[sopranodespair]

I never read Babysitters club, but I read Babysitter's little sister. I looved that series

[Tenalto]

I can't begin to guess how many of those I read and how many times I read them. Claudia was always my favorite. I don't really know why. I loved the superseries ones, or whatever they were called -- the big ones. The one I read the most was the one where they all went to camp. Oh, the BSC. Good times. Even though I always skipped over the almost word-for-word description of each character at the beginning of each book. I can still recite the names of Mallory's siblings -- ages, too, I think! How pathetic is that?

[Annie]

I was a Mallory as a kid, and now I'm Mary-Anne.

Haha. I love that we can pick out our types! Ann M. Martin (right?) was wise!




The day I fell further in love with one of my best friends was the day we were chatting last year about what it would be like if we were to set up her single mom with my single dad. She concluded, 'We'd be like Dawn and Mary-Anne!"

[Emilala]

http://whatclaudiawore.blogspot.com

This is the best BSC-related website EVER.

[kozafluitmusique]

I read some of them - I loved and hated them.

[~GertrudeMcFuzz~]

Omigod, the Babysitters Club! I LOVED these. I started with the Little Sister books first, when I was younger, and then started reading the regular ones when I was older.

I definitely defined myself as Mallory when I was younger, because I started horseback riding and there was that one book about Mallory and Jessie being obsessed with horses. Now...I don't know. I can't actually remember tons of the personalities. I should go refresh my memory...

[blackbird_fly]

I loved the BSC books when I was younger and now I see how awesomely contrived and 80's they were. Same goes for the spinoffs.

[Roger's Chica]

I don't know, I'd say the California Diaries were a decent spinoff. Surprisingly uncheesy and they actually dealt with serious issues in a somewhat decent way.

Shame it only lasted for 15 books.

[wicked_diva]

I devoured these books in 2nd grade, until I had read all that were out. I really don't remember much about them now, though, 13 yrs later... And I remember something about Dawn and California in a spin-off series, but I don't recall any details.

[Mara]

I loved them.

I learnt a ridiculous amount from them.

I'm not kidding. I knew all these random facts from reading them. I would spout out this weird knowledge and my parents would say "where did you learn that?" and I would say "The Baby-sitters club" everytime.

I have great nostalgia for them. I used to feel like they were so old and grown up. When I turned 13 I still felt like they were. The ages are so randomly inaccurate. As if an 11 year old could baby sit all those kids.

[shakalakababy]

[blackbird_fly]

[bwayobsessed]

I loved those boock when I was younger. I think we still have some around the house somewhere. Caludia was my beyond favorite, I aspired to be her growing up. I vividly remember one book where they were traveling across the country in an RV and at one stop there was this awful tornado....anyone else know what I'm thinking of?

[darthlorexa]

I absolutely loved the Baby Sitters Club and Baby Sitters Little Sister when I was younger and while I'm not as obsessed with them now I still enjoy reading them occasionally.

[Amber]

Oh, I LOVED reading the BSC books when I was younger! I particularly liked the Super Specials (like the one where they went to Shadow Lake). I didn't read the Little Sister ones too often; I didn't really like Karen. I picked up "Karen's Granddad" again after my own grandpop died when I was nine. GREAT book to help deal with your first death of a loved one.

My favorite BSCs were "Mary Anne Saves The Day", the one about Shadow Lake, and "The Ghost at Dawn's House". I loved them ALL. I also loved the movie. I have it downstairs in my dust-collecting VHS cabinet. My favorite characters were Stacey and Mary Anne.

I remember the California Diaries. My mom thought they looked too "mature", so I never was allowed to read them.

[Psyches]

BSC ROCKS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXrAUkPVHwI

I read so many of the books, does anyone remember Abby and Anna, the twins who's dad died? One of them played the violin? They replaced Dawn when she went back to Cali. I had the biggest crush on Dawn.

Claudia was my fave though.

[Amber]

^ I remember Abby! She was allergic to cats. I think.

[Tenalto]

^ She was allergic to everything. I remember liking the twins almost on principle because they had scoliosis and Anna had a brace for it (like me!).

[Roger's Chica]

Abby was allergic to everything. And she loved Elvis. And making puns.

She was definitely a much cooler version of Kristy.