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We Are the Baby-Sitters Club: Essays and Artwork from Grown-Up Readers Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Marisa Crawford - editor (Author), Megan Milks - editor (Author), Mara Wilson - foreword (Author),

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A nostalgia-packed, star-studded anthology featuring contributors such as Kristen Arnett, Yumi Sakugawa, Myriam Gurba, and others exploring the lasting impact of Ann M. Martin’s beloved Baby-Sitters Club series.

In 1986, the first-ever meeting of the Baby-Sitters Club was called to order in a messy bedroom strewn with RingDings, scrunchies, and a landline phone. Kristy, Claudia, Stacey, and Mary Anne launched the club that birthed an entire generation of loyal readers.

Ann M. Martin’s Baby-Sitters Club series featured a complex cast of characters and touched on an impressive range of issues that were underrepresented at the time: divorce, adoption, childhood illness, class division, and racism, to name a few.

In We Are the Baby-Sitters Club, writers from the original BSC generation will reflect on the enduring legacy of Ann M. Martin’s beloved series, 35 years later - celebrating the BSC’s profound cultural influence.

Contributors include Paperback Crush author Gabrielle Moss, illustrator Siobhán Gallagher, and filmmaker Sue Ding, as well as New York Times best-selling author Kristen Arnett, Lambda Award finalist Myriam Gurba, Black Girl Nerds founder Jamie Broadnax, and Paris Review contributor Frankie Thomas.

One of LitHub's Most Anticipated Books of 2021, We Are the Baby-Sitters Club looks closely at how Ann M. Martin’s series shaped our ideas about gender politics, friendship, fashion, and beyond.

Includes a downloadable PDF containing artwork and photographs from the book

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July 6, 2021
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Listening Length	7 hours and 27 minutes
Author	Marisa Crawford - editor, Megan Milks - editor, Mara Wilson - foreword
Narrator	Brittany Pressley, Ali Ahn, Emily Bauer, Erin Moon, Susan Heyward, Leigh Ponce, Daniel Henning, Dani Martineck, Nikki Massoud, Marisa Crawford, Megan Milks, Mara Wilson
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Audible.com Release Date	July 06, 2021
Publisher	Random House Audio
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B093NQ8FFD
Best Sellers Rank	#174,665 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) #233 in Children's Literary Criticism (Books) #467 in Popular Culture Studies #607 in Literary History & Criticism

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A must have for any and all lovers of the BSC

Reviewed in the United States on July 12, 2021

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This book brings me right back to my happy place of devouring book after book after book in the BSC series during my childhood. As a busy mom I love how each individual chapter can be read and enjoyed separately. Makes it more reasonable to read since I can pick it up and read a little and come back to it in a day or a week. I’ve managed to read one chapter so far - Scripts of Girlhood - and it is wonderfully well written and enjoyable to read. To anyone who loved these books as a child this book is a must read!

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TravellingCari

Oh the BSC

Reviewed in the United States on May 23, 2022

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I really, really loved this book. I totally grew up on the Babysitters Club, although I was the leading end of it so outgrew them sooner than the Millennials most associated with this series. There were some passages referred to that vividly came right back to me. The authors in this collection are probably about my age and represented a good cross section of race, gender and age exploring the same theories. While BSC did some things right for the era in which it was published, especially in addressing blended families, there are definitely some areas where it could have been better: Queer representation, ableism, colorism in terms of Jessi's skin color and more. I was surprised to discover there's a thriving fan fic community for the series as well. Because I had wandered away from the series, I had missed Ann M. Martin's subsequent coming out, which in hingsight was not surprising.

A good read.

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Enjoyed the Netflix Reboot? You'll love this!

Reviewed in the United States on July 12, 2021

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An enjoyable collection of essays and art showing how adults engage with children's lit as adults and their reflection on childhood. The handwriting chapter is "can't miss."

I am using this text in a course on using media in classrooms in order to anchor learners in their own experiences and connection to books and stories.

Most people will just find it a fun read that connects them to others who love the characters they love.

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GalGlamorous

Remembering the Babysitters Club

Reviewed in the United States on November 22, 2021

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I had a period of my youth where I had a very difficult time feeling like I fit in anywhere. But as a very bookish young girl, reading Babysitters Club was like having a group of girlfriends. And I was very obsessed with the series!

I reread the books in the series from time to time and it feels like a school reunion of sorts. I have the opportunity to revisit some good memories, but there were good reasons for drifting apart.

This book was eye opening for me, while Babysitters Club had a very positive impact on me I wasn't fully aware of its shortcomings to fans that were not white or heterosexual. But then that is what nostalgia does: bringing up points that were very good and either forgetting or being unaware of the negative impact that the nostalgic item caused. This book keeps its eyes wide open while exploring the literary memories of people from all walks of life had with the cultural phenomenon of the Babysitters Club.

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Tara and Zach Barrows

Yes! Get this book.

Reviewed in the United States on July 18, 2021

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There is so much to love about this book. The essays are so honest and relatable, insightful and smart that you may find yourself letting out the occasional audible “YES!.” The artwork and layout is super cool and fun. This is a treasure for grown up BSC superfans!

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beth

Heart warming and wholesome, yet smart and critical

Reviewed in the United States on July 15, 2021

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This book uniquely connects millennials and gen-x-ers who read the Babysitters Club series as young people, but through the lens of our adult, critical minds. It’s exciting to finally have a forum to discuss the BSC within contemporary politics. A fun summer book and also an important critical text.

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MandGoggs

Packed with Nostalgia!

Reviewed in the United States on July 6, 2021

'There's a feeling of community amongst us, those who grew up with these girls.

I was first introduced to the BSC books by my new best friend who had just started at my school. I was 10, it was the early 90s. I was already a pretty avid reader but these books changed me. I was suddenly a part of this world where I felt no matter what my personality, background, etc. was, I was accepted and belonged. I and my friend would swap books and discuss them in detail when we were both finished. We loved this world so much that we even pretended like these kids were real and we knew them and were part of the club. We even made an attempt to start our own BSC (my newborn sister and her toddler brother being the only kids we actually 'sitted). Kristy was my fave and I was a Kristy/MaryAnn/Claudia combo.

I find all these years later as a 35-year old that I still think about these characters and pick up one of the books to read every now and again. I devoured the Netflix series in 2020. This book made me realise I'm not alone in that clearly.

I found the POV's of so many readers fascinating. We all come from so many different backgrounds and felt differently about each of the characters and storylines for various reasons. But one thing was the same; these books had helped us, made us belong and fill us with a childhood nostalgia like no other.

It is funny, insightful, nostalgic and informative. It covers a wide array of topics from Claudia's fashion, to BSC fanfic. A wonderful collection of thoughts and essays on a book series so widely loved by many.

Now, I'm gonna go and read 'Kristy's Great Idea' for the 100th time!

(Thanks to Netgalley for the ARC. All thoughts are my own.)

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