Babysitter's Club Set

by Ann M. Martin

Super Special #6 - #10: New York New York!, Snowbound, Baby-sitter's at Shadow Lake, Starring the Baby-sitter's Club, Sea City Here We Come! (Baby-sitters Club)

Genres: Childrens

Paperback

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

[Stephanie Fujii · Rating 4 out of 5]

A childhood fave.

[Leslie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Hands down my favorite book series as a kid. Loved the originals, loved the super special editions. I would buy a new one and read the whole thing in one sitting. Looking back, it's weird to think these kids were 11 and 13. As a younger kid reading these, those ages sounded so mature! Ha! My fave was Claudia (duh) even though she had horrible spelling. She was just so cool and artsy and had funky clothes and was Japanese like me. Looking back I didn't realize that she represented a pretty non-stereotypical Asian character, which is pretty neat.

[Moonieloon · Rating 5 out of 5]

My absolute favorite series as a child, and probably what made me near-sighted. I can still remember the joy I had reading these books, was totally obsessed.

[Kasey · Rating 3 out of 5]

I loved these series as a kid soooo much!

[Savannah · Rating 5 out of 5]

adored these books as a kid, couldn't put them down and luckily my mum subscribed to them for me so I got a few new ones every month!

[Electric · Rating 3 out of 5]

These books were the shit when I was younger.