Baby-Sitter's on Board (the Baby-Sitters Club Super Special 1)

by Ann M. Martin

217 pages, Paperback

Published June 1, 2022

About the author

Ann Matthews Martin was born on August 12, 1955. She grew up in Princeton, New Jersey, with her parents and her younger sister, Jane. After graduating from Smith College, Ann became a teacher and then an editor of children's books. She's now a full-time writer.

Ann gets the ideas for her books from many different places. Some are based on personal experiences, while others are based on childhood memories and feelings. Many are written about contemporary problems or events. All of Ann's characters, even the members of the Baby-sitters Club, are made up. But many of her characters are based on real people. Sometimes Ann names her characters after people she knows, and other times she simply chooses names that she likes.

Ann has always enjoyed writing. Even before she was old enough to write, she would dictate stories to her mother to write down for her. Some of her favorite authors at that time were Lewis Carroll, P. L. Travers, Hugh Lofting, Astrid Lindgren, and Roald Dahl. They inspired her to become a writer herself.

Since ending the BSC series in 2000, Ann’s writing has concentrated on single novels, many of which are set in the 1960s.

After living in New York City for many years, Ann moved to the Hudson Valley in upstate New York where she now lives with her dog, Sadie, and her cats, Gussie, Willy and Woody. Her hobbies are reading, sewing, and needlework. Her favorite thing to do is to make clothes for children.

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Reviews

[Kortney Hill · Rating 3 out of 5]

I never need chapters for, Byron, Karen, or David Michael…..that is all.

[Audrey Morelli · Rating 3 out of 5]

I think the book was pretty good! I liked the different points of views from the characters!! I also liked how they were at Disney world for some of the story as well!! However, I was just kind of setting this book down and not really think about it a ton. I would love to see the other adventures of the babysitters club in this series!🏰🛳️☀️❤️

[Naisha Jhunjhunwala · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very good chapter book about the baby sitters club having an awesome adventure in their trip! Read to see what they go through! I reccommend this book to growing readers aged 9-12:) Hope you enjoy it!

[Erin · Rating 2 out of 5]

Honestly, this book was stupid. I loved these books as a kid and read almost all of them, but they do not hold up. I'm reading some of them to my daughters now and they enjoy them, so that's nice. One thing I do appreciate about this book series is that it has diversity and representation. There are characters of different races, children of divorce, and people with varying disabilities, which is somewhat of a rarity for books from the early 90s.

But the actual plot and telling of it was pretty stupid, so 2 stars.