Baby sitters club? [Archive]

alootikki

03-24-2006, 07:33 AM

I loved them too - still re-read them when I visit my parents :)

The author has stopped writing new ones, and they can sometimes be hard to find in a bookstore. I think your best bet would be to look on ebay, especially to find the earliest books - I've seen lots of 40-50 Ann Martin books for very reasonable prices.

thechick79

03-24-2006, 07:35 AM

I just checked and they have several on Amazon.com.

I loved these books too! I read nearly every single one until I got too old and they weren't challenging enough.

lawyergirl25

03-24-2006, 07:56 AM

I used to own every book between 1-63, and then I only bought the ones about Mary Anne and Kristy. Mainly because I wanted to see what was going on with their boyfriends, Logan and Bart.

So very sad. :o

Anyway, I tried to find BSC books not too long ago because I thought my niece would be interested in reading them. I discovered that I could usually find the box sets in pretty decent condition at used bookstores, but it was much more difficult to find the single books. I guess I would use Amazon.com, as a PP suggested.

I still have copies of the first five Super Specials, but I'm not giving those up without a fight! :D

Good luck and let us know if you find a good source for BSC books! I'd like to buy them to pass on to my (hypothetical) daughter or my nieces.

EJH

03-24-2006, 08:38 AM

Oh I loved this series. My parents shipped me some boxes when they moved of my stuff that was still living in their garage, lots of the BSC series books in those boxes. I'm so glad, I'll pass them along to DD.

:D

Camdynlyn

03-24-2006, 08:43 AM

I have almost the entire series of BSC as well as Little Sister (Kristy's sister). I saved most of them from my childhood and inherited a bunch from a library that was getting rid of the Little Sister editions. Because I'm a school teacher and I knew I would be one, my mom saved all my BSC books from my childhood. I think I owned almost all of them and I even tried to start my own club and... you know your addicted when you've seen the MOVIES!! Does anyone remembger them or am I just crazy?

lawyergirl25

03-24-2006, 08:50 AM

There were movies? Really??

thechick79

03-24-2006, 08:56 AM

There was a movie and a really cheesy TV show. The movie came out in 1995 I think?

DallasLady

03-24-2006, 08:59 AM

Oh man, I was in love with the BSC! I used to run my own little lending library out of my locker when I was in junior high. I had just about every book, but I gave them away when I turned 18 and went away to college (all except the Super Specials, I kept those for sentimental reasons).

Hello Kitty

03-24-2006, 09:50 AM

Oh goodness! I have a ton of these (I had the mail order program) and they're just sitting in storage @ my parents' - PM me if you want any of them. And I would be happy to place a classified ad for it ;)

kmmommy

03-24-2006, 09:57 AM

What a blast from the past! I loved BSC books. I think I still have a few at my parent's house but I haven't read one for a long time.

Summer ~ I too have seen some of the movies. :)

lawyergirl25

03-24-2006, 10:00 AM

Seriously, Seb's Kitty, if you ran a classified, I'd buy them (if solongtogo didn't beat me to it!).

ginastorm

03-24-2006, 10:04 AM

I loved those books! Those girls were in 8th grade for about 10 years. I would have loved it if Ann M. Martin would have continued to age the girls through high school. I'll have to check out amazon to find out what happened to the girls after I stopped reading them.

greenbunny

03-24-2006, 10:13 AM

I had so many, and I bought them all with allowance. I wish I had all that money now, since the books are long gone! I had over 60, plus the Super Specials.

I remember one movie, but I didn't like it because none of the actors looked like what I'd pictured in my head.

I remember feeling bad for Kristy because her stepdad's name was "Watson" and I thought that was the stupidest name ever! I also went through a phase where I tried to dress like Claudia. Let's pretend the day I went to school dressed like a grape didn't happen. :o

Mellow_Water1

03-24-2006, 10:29 AM

ginastorm, Ann M. Martin did write a few books about Dawn going to HS in California. Actually, only one was about Dawn, and the others were about her other friends in HS. They were all written as diary entries. It was a series that branched off BSC, called "California Diaries" and the titles were just the girls' names.

designer

03-24-2006, 10:33 AM

I loved those books too! I even had the babysitters club board game! :) haha

lawyergirl25

03-24-2006, 10:39 AM

I also went through a phase where I tried to dress like Claudia. Let's pretend the day I went to school dressed like a grape didn't happen. :o
LOL! I wanted to dress like Claudia, I just couldn't pull off the paper-maiche earring, layered socks with leggings look. :)

Chimichanga

03-24-2006, 11:16 AM

*raises hand* I have the movies somewhere on VHS. Yup - my sister and I loved to watch them.

I think my mom saved my BSC books, but they are probably so trashed after years of borrowing them out, moving, re-reading, etc. Hmm - maybe I'll have to call mom and see if she still has them or if they didn't make it through the last move.

Sarah051504

03-24-2006, 11:57 AM

I loved these books. Haven't thought about them in YEARS. After some searching I've found two interesting things.

1. If you a netflix member, they've got the movie!

2. Here's the list of all the BSC books. http://www.scholastic.com/annmartin/bsc/babysitters.pdf
I didn't know there were so many.

Rose

03-24-2006, 12:03 PM

This was my favorite series when I was younger. I remember how exciting it was every time a new book came out.

karlatta

03-24-2006, 12:04 PM

I noticed the other day that the used bookstore by my house had tons of BSC books. Two shelves full. I wanted to buy them, but I need to check first and see if my old ones are at my mom's house.

mgrace

03-24-2006, 12:06 PM

Loved them!

I still have a bunch of them, but I did give some of them away.

Amazon (or sellers on Amazon) have quite a few of them here (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/ref=br_ss_hs/104-8801724-6153535?platform=gurupa&url=index%3Dstripbooks%3Arelevance-above&field-keywords=baby+sitter%27s+club).

Mellow_Water1

03-24-2006, 12:07 PM

I looked at the list that Sarah051504 posted a link to. I didn't even realize there was an Abby in the series. I guess I grew out of reading them before she came along.

greenbunny

03-24-2006, 01:45 PM

Abby? Who the heck is Abby? I guess I stopped reading a while before they were finished.

alootikki

03-24-2006, 01:59 PM

Abby was the new girl (Jewish, had a twin sister, and her father had passed away - because as you know, every club member was bringing some kind of diversity to the table!).

My brother has even read some of the books "out of boredom" - we'd joke about future titles like "Mary-Anne and the Unexpected Teen Pregnancy" or "Claudia and the Trouble with Drugs". Alas, these books will never be...

greenbunny

03-24-2006, 02:09 PM

I checked that PDF list, and I stopped reading them around book 62 or 63. Wow, I can't believe they went on so much longer! The plots were wearing pretty thin by the time I gave them up, I can't imagine the last 40-some books.

jmvan74

03-24-2006, 02:25 PM

I bought a couple of these books for my neice for Xmas this last year. I got them at Amazon.com I was a little too old for them, myself. I was more of a Sweet Valley High, girl. ;)

ginastorm

03-24-2006, 02:51 PM

ginastorm

03-24-2006, 02:52 PM

My brother has even read some of the books "out of boredom" - we'd joke about future titles like "Mary-Anne and the Unexpected Teen Pregnancy" or "Claudia and the Trouble with Drugs". Alas, these books will never be...

ROFLMAO!

LeslieandPaul

03-24-2006, 03:09 PM

Abby was the new girl (Jewish, had a twin sister, and her father had passed away - because as you know, every club member was bringing some kind of diversity to the table!).

I remember when there was a contest to "name the new babysitter" (Abby), but that was around the time I stopped reading them.

I own a bunch of books between 1 and 83, 5 mysteries (although I never finished reading "Stacey & the mystery at the Empty House" because it scared me too much!) and 2 super specials, and used to have the movie. I think I may have read some of the little sister books. I also read way more books than I own (checked them out of the library frequently). Maybe I'll start rereading some of the ones I own (and get some out of the library :p).

If I ever have daughters, I'm going to get them all the books. I loved reading them as a kid.

Cricket4

03-24-2006, 04:22 PM

When I was 9 years old, I was reading the book where Stacey's family tells her they're moving back to New York (I think that's how the plot line goes). Anyway, they tell Stacey they have some good news for her, and she goes "You're having a baby!!!" and she's all excited and they have to tell her the good news is that they're moving to NY, and she isn't happy about that.

Well, one summer morning I was reading that book in bed, and had just finished that scene, when my mom calls my brother and I into her room. We go in, and she goes "I have good news for you," and I just blurt out "you're having a baby!"

My mom goes :eek: and is like "how did you know?"

And I responded "c'mon, Mom, what's the real news."

"I'm pregnant. We're going to have a baby."

"Seriously, Mom. What's the real news."

"That IS the real news. I'm having a baby."

I guess finally I believed her, because the baby is now 17...

But we still tell that story, and how the Babysitters Club made me clairvoyant.

xine

03-24-2006, 08:36 PM

I was such a BSC fan - and I got my sister hooked into them too. I think our whole collection lives with my 12-year old cousin now.

My local library has a ton of them, including a lot of the more recent ones, and I spent an hour or so reading the backs of them to see what happened to them. Apparently a few dozen books before the end, everyone except the original girls quits the BSC, so it's down to the original four. And the last book is when they *finally* graduate the eighth grade - apparently the last book is pretty expensive on Amazon...

Aimee

03-24-2006, 08:46 PM

I love love loved the BSC books. I was so into it, my mom would take me to the book store on the 15th of every month to get the new book when it came out. It was the highlight of my day. I had all of them up to the mid 60s and then a few up until 100. At that point, I think they started renumbering the books or something. It was weird. I was a junior in HS by that point, and a bit old for the books :( I know my mom saved all of mine and I'd love to fill in the collection and have all of them.

I was a member of the official BSC fan club. I got a poster and everything! I also had the board game, some of the videos (they were so, so cheesy, even worse than the BSC feature film) and even some stationary. I never used the stationary, I was saving it. And then I grew up before I used any of it. Oops.

mrstim

03-24-2006, 08:47 PM

OH yeah, BSC, Sweet Valley, Saddle Club, I have such fond memories!! :D

I do know that the two used bookstores in town have literally SHELVES of these hanging out! My little sister (11) is now into them, it's strange to see her reading the same thigns I did so many years ago!

CheartsQ

03-24-2006, 09:10 PM

This was my favorite series when I was young! So of course I had to look on Amazon for them after I started reading this thread. It seems Ann M. Martin made a spin-off of the original books. After the last book, which dropped the club down to the original 4 (I think its called "graduation day"), the new series is called "BSC Friends Forever". If you do a search on Amazon these newer books should come up. From what the reviews say, these books are supposed to be more realistic and mature than the older ones. The new series has actual real people on the cover, whcih I don't like because I always liked the illustation on the originals.

Chinelle:)

EJH

03-24-2006, 09:31 PM

Oh Yeah...I watched the movie on On Demand in the middle of the night a few months ago. :o Heh. Took me back. ;)

ManteoChik

03-25-2006, 03:50 PM

Wow...this brings back memories! I used to read all the books. Myself and three friends had our own "babysitters club"...lol. I was "Claudia" and on day we had a substitue she handed out name tags and all four of us wrote our BSC names on them. :p

We eventually were told we couldn't have our club anymore at school beacause other girls were getting jealous. :rolleyes: Ahhh, the trials and tribulations of 5th graders....lol.

I also remember the movie that came out - and I remember the song they came up so stacy (I think) could remember the parts of the brain.

I'd LOVE to find some of the old books to have for any future daughters I might have.

Camdynlyn

03-26-2006, 10:10 AM

This makes me want to see the movies again.

Oh and BTW, the mysteries were my favorites.

Sposa06

03-26-2006, 12:03 PM

I had two of the BSC calendars ...

*runs and hides*

Hello Kitty

03-27-2006, 07:58 AM

LOL, I had the calendar too!

Here's a link to the books I have - I really thought I had more, so if I find them, I'll post a new ad or amend the old one.

http://www.constantchatter.com/classifieds/showproduct.php?product=182

ajlanden

03-27-2006, 08:22 AM

LOVED BSC!!!

Who was your favorite BS?

I liked Mary Anne....I always dreamed of a bf like Logan. Think I could get DH to talk to me in the southern accent and call me Mary Anne? LOL!!!

lawyergirl25

03-27-2006, 08:30 AM

Here's a link to the books I have - I really thought I had more, so if I find them, I'll post a new ad or amend the old one.

http://www.constantchatter.com/classifieds/showproduct.php?product=182
Cool! Will have to figure out which ones are "the best" and place an order!

My favorite baby-sitter was Stacey. She was so cool!

December27JJB

03-28-2006, 07:11 PM

OMG this is too funny! I loved BSC! I loved Stacy and Claudia. My sister, a friend, and I actually went around our neighborhood passing out flyers for babysitting jobs and we were the "Babysitters Club" lol I definitely need to ask my aunt if she still has my books so I can give them to DD. ;)

Oakley

04-13-2006, 09:02 AM

I just found this thread and I LOVED BSC!!! I didn't know there were so many, plus the Super Specials and mysteries. Makes me want to go to the library and figure out how the series ended! I'm such a dork!