Baby Sitters Club

WVU alpha phi · #1 01-06-2005, 12:17 AM

The Baby Sitters Club series came up while I was out at dinner with my friends last night.. don't ask, I have no idea why we were talking about this! Did anyone else ever read the books OR own the movies that were like 30 minute episodes?

Tonight I dug out a BSC book I found buried in my closet for old times sake.

DGqueen17 · #2 01-06-2005, 12:24 AM

I had every book, the board game, the dolls, the movie, I watched the show, my friend and I even started a babysitters club (but we never babysat). It makes me sad that they don't have them at the stores anymore

Taualumna · #3 01-06-2005, 12:26 AM

I used to have a huge, huge, huge collection of these books! I don't know where they went now, and the only one I can find is "Jessi's Baby-Sitter" (the one when the mean Ramsey aunt moves in and won't let Jessi do anything, including taking baby-sitting jobs AND going to BSC meetings (Mean Auntie actually told Jessi that she couldn't go to the meeting because she didn't know who Claudia is!!!!!) I also have one of the videos (it has a pink case and Claudia is the main character in it).

I wish I could find the rest of my collection. I loved the Super Specials, especially the one where they went to Vermont and the one where they went to New York. I also owned a few of the mystery series spin-offs. I read BSC until I was about 12 1/2 and even owned the special book about Logan!

ETA: I met Ann M Martin when I was about 11 years old and she signed my Super Special 4 (the one where they were lost on the island)!!

My copy of "Jessi's Baby-Sitter" is also signed, but it was to my cousin, who never took it home with her.

#4 01-06-2005, 12:29 AM

The local bookstores still carry the BSC books.

I used pretend like I was Claudia just because I'm Japanese too. I could spell better than she could, though.

It's safe to say that I have every book including the Super Specials. I'd buy the 4-Packs from Costco every chance I got.

I have the Board Game, the videos, and the books. Not the dolls though...I felt like I was too old for them.

All my BSC things are in a protected storage bin!

I remember I think I was in HS or college by the time Ann M Martin wrote the last one. They graduated from SMS, and it was such a nice end!

sugar and spice · #5 01-06-2005, 12:53 AM

I had tons of books and I read almost all of them -- plus I had the board game, one or two of the 30-minute movies, and I'm sure I had some other random stuff as well.

One day last year I was feeling nostalgic and made my then-boyfriend watch the BSC movie with me.

I liked Sweet Valley High better, though.

#6 01-06-2005, 12:58 AM

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Originally posted by sugar and spice

I liked Sweet Valley High better, though.

My favorite was the Sweet Valley Saga...the epic that told about the Wakefield women.

sugar and spice · #7 01-06-2005, 01:38 AM

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Originally posted by OohTeenyWahine
My favorite was the Sweet Valley Saga...the epic that told about the Wakefield women.

Those were awesome.

My two favorite parts were the ones who were in the POW camp in WWII (I think) and the Roaring Twenties section when one of the twins set up the other one's boyfriend for having alcohol during prohibition.

Memories!

orchid2 · #8 01-06-2005, 02:27 AM

I liked the Baby Sitters Club, but when I was younger I read the "Baby Sitter's Little Sister" series about Kristy's stepsister Karen... anybody remember this?

Oh, I was a huge Sweet Valley Fan. I preferred them to the BSC! In 2nd grade I religiously read Sweet Valley Kids, and in 4th &5th grade I read Sweet Valley Twins. Never really got into Sweet Valley High though. I tried to read some of them and the characters seemed to have changed... Amy wasn't Elizabeth's best friend anymore, etc. Nor did I ever watch the series.

lyrica9 · #9 01-06-2005, 03:56 AM

i had a ton of BSC books, and i was really into, but in a rage of "cleaning the little kid away" in 9th grade i gave them all to goodwill.
last year i got sad about it. i wanted to read some. i was in the mood for an abby centered mystery special. sigh.

PiPhiGirl2005 · #10 01-06-2005, 04:32 AM

I absolutely loved all things BSC. I had all the books, including every Super Special. My sister is 6 years younger than me and continued the collection after I grew out of it.

Favorite Super Specials: The Disney World one, the one where they got stuck on the island, and the Vermont one.

I was also a HUGE fan of the Baby-Sitter's Little Sister books. We had all of those, too. I think all this stuff is in a bin in our attic.

And the BSC movie was the best.

I never really got into all the Sweet Valley stuff, but I did have some of the Sweet Valley Kids books when I was young. I had a few Sweet Valley High books one of my cousins or aunts handed down to me, but I wasn't a big fan.

I'm still on winter break and I think I'm going to dig these things of of the attic....

#11 01-06-2005, 05:05 AM

I was a HUGE fan of the Baby Sitter's Club. When I was in 4th grade, I thought being a babysitter was the coolest thing ever LOL. If I remember correctly, I think my favorites were Claudia, Kristy and Mary-Anne, because I seemed to own most of their books more than anything else. I also read alot of nancy drew books too.

#12 01-06-2005, 05:07 AM

Does anyone remember when the movie came out?

smiley21 · #13 01-06-2005, 08:15 AM

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Originally posted by carol9a
Does anyone remember when the movie came out?

the movie came out in august of 1995. i have the movie, the 30 min videos, and a ton of the books. i still adore the BSC. i still go to the library and read the others that i do not have.

same thing with SVH. i have episodes recorded on tape, and i have a ton of books.

i feel so silly when i admit to that. but it is apart of me that refuses to die. it relaxes me when i am stressed

Taualumna · #14 01-06-2005, 08:32 AM

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Originally posted by OohTeenyWahine
My favorite was the Sweet Valley Saga...the epic that told about the Wakefield women.

I liked it too! Did anyone read the other Saga book, about the Wakefield side? I never did.

ZTAngel · #15 01-06-2005, 09:27 AM

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Originally posted by OohTeenyWahine
My favorite was the Sweet Valley Saga...the epic that told about the Wakefield women.

Yes, and they had a second series that told the story of the Wakefield men. It started off in the early 1900s with a Wakefield man meeting Alice, a Swedish girl, on board a ship that was heading for Ellis Island. It continues over the decades with the Wakefield men meeting these women from the same family but fate never seemed to bring them together until the 1960s.

How I remember this stuff is completely beyond me......

Those Sweet Valley Saga books were almost like a dirty romance novel for pre-pubescent girls.