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Heidi Heckelbeck #16
Heidi Heckelbeck Is the Bestest Babysitter!
Heidi Heckelbeck wants to prove she can make it in the babysitting business, but she’ll need a little magic and a lot of help from her friends!
Heidi Heckelbeck is eager to start babysitting, but her mom doesn’t think she’s old enough yet. To prove she’s ready to be responsible, Heidi teams up with Laurel and Bruce to create a spectacular booth—called the “Little Explorers Museum”—for the Brewster Elementary fair. It’s going to be an exciting exhibit of fabulous art projects, nifty science experiments…and babysitting! But when Heidi worries that her babysitting station won’t attract enough visitors, will her Book of Spells help her find a magical solution?
With easy-to-read language and illustrations on almost ever page, the Heidi Heckelbeck chapter books are perfect for beginning readers.
Heidi Heckelbeck is eager to start babysitting, but her mom doesn’t think she’s old enough yet. To prove she’s ready to be responsible, Heidi teams up with Laurel and Bruce to create a spectacular booth—called the “Little Explorers Museum”—for the Brewster Elementary fair. It’s going to be an exciting exhibit of fabulous art projects, nifty science experiments…and babysitting! But when Heidi worries that her babysitting station won’t attract enough visitors, will her Book of Spells help her find a magical solution?
With easy-to-read language and illustrations on almost ever page, the Heidi Heckelbeck chapter books are perfect for beginning readers.
128 pages, Hardcover
First published December 15, 2015
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January 19, 2016
I didn't really read this book. Sure, I read the first chapter or so, but then I tucked in the bookmark and assumed I could spread this out over a few weeks of bedtime rituals.
Then I found it in the return-to-library pile. Why? The little one, impatient at my slowness, went ahead and read the rest of the book. Without me.
So, to conclude: I didn't read this book. How AWESOME is that?!
Then I found it in the return-to-library pile. Why? The little one, impatient at my slowness, went ahead and read the rest of the book. Without me.
So, to conclude: I didn't read this book. How AWESOME is that?!
December 18, 2025
HEIDI really wanted to babysit kids becauuse she didn't want to get babysited!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!AT the end heidi was not babysited after all and she was happy! she was babysiting kids and that was funny!
July 16, 2021
"This was not one of my favorites from all the Heidi Heckelbeck books that I have read." -Cadee, age 9
February 4, 2019
In this book, Heidi and her friends Laurel and Bruce are making a booth so they can raise money for their school. Bruce is doing science, Laurel is doing art, and Heidi is doing a babysitting booth. She doesn't know what to do for it, so she uses her book of spells to make a magic trick for the kids since kids like magic. I think she could've been good with kids without magic. I don't think you need magic to make a kid happy, but it was still a pretty cool trick.
May 26, 2017
I really love Heidi Heckelbeck. She has a necklace and shes got lots of spells in a book. The spells sometimes turn out wrong, so thats a bit funny because she has to find a different spell and find the right ingredients. When she did magic for the kids she did the spell and confetti came out of the hat. L, aged 5
March 10, 2021
''Heidi Heckelbeck'' Is really good, I gave it five stars!
March 7, 2023
My daughter loves this series!
July 1, 2016
So Heidi is ... magic? With The Lost Stone, I started at the beginning of the series and didn't care for the pacing (exposition, blech). Here I think I jumped in without enough background. Heidi appears to be magic, but there was never any mention of power or her being a bit witchy. And she doesn't have cool Sabrina the Teenage Witch kind of magic, but spells with whipped cream and pop rocks. This book has the loosey-goosiest of plots, that I think would be too boring and inconsistent even for kids. These books definitely have an audience, but I'll sooner put more interesting books into their hands than this.
And I found the illustrations creepy.
And I found the illustrations creepy.
July 8, 2017
Heidi Heckelbeck wants to prove she can make it in the babysitting business, but she’ll need a little magic and a lot of help from her friends!
Heidi Heckelbeck is eager to start babysitting, but her mom doesn’t think she’s old enough yet. To prove she’s ready to be responsible, Heidi teams up with Laurel and Bruce to create a spectacular booth—called the “Little Explorers Museum”—for the Brewster Elementary fair. It’s going to be an exciting exhibit of fabulous art projects, nifty science experiments…and babysitting! But when Heidi worries that her babysitting station won’t attract enough visitors, will her Book of Spells help her find a magical solution?
With easy-to-read language and illustrations on almost ever page, the Heidi Heckelbeck chapter books are perfect for beginning readers
Heidi Heckelbeck is eager to start babysitting, but her mom doesn’t think she’s old enough yet. To prove she’s ready to be responsible, Heidi teams up with Laurel and Bruce to create a spectacular booth—called the “Little Explorers Museum”—for the Brewster Elementary fair. It’s going to be an exciting exhibit of fabulous art projects, nifty science experiments…and babysitting! But when Heidi worries that her babysitting station won’t attract enough visitors, will her Book of Spells help her find a magical solution?
With easy-to-read language and illustrations on almost ever page, the Heidi Heckelbeck chapter books are perfect for beginning readers
May 24, 2016
Cute read with my little Abigail.
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