Karen's Puppet Show

Baby-Sitters Little Sister #88

by Ann M. Martin

Before she leaves for art camp, Karen has a fight with her best friends Hannie and Nancy, which she tries to work out by putting on a special puppet show. Original.

Genres: Childrens, Collections

112 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published August 1, 1997

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.

http://us.macmillan.com/author/annmma...

Reviews

[Bethany]

Kids book but read because I found a website with a bunch of them and am reading the ones I wasn't able to as a child

[Em's Adventures · Rating 4 out of 5]

Hmm ironically, if it had been the other way around and Karen had been the one who didn't want to go to art camp then she would've still been mad at her friends anyway. You can't win with Karen.

[Jaclyn · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ok Karen's puppet show was mean-spirited and she's gingundoly lucky that her friends and all the adults and baby-sitters found it hilarious instead.

[Christina Matheis · Rating 5 out of 5]

I enjoyed this story

[Christina Mages · Rating 5 out of 5]

I enjoyed this story

[Teresa Granado-Law · Rating 3 out of 5]

They played "Red Light, Green Light." Also, Kristy, Claudia, and Mary Anne were in this one.

[Athalia Stoneback · Rating 4 out of 5]

Cute story. Karen is a little bratty in the beginning, when she doesn't get her way of her friends coming to Art Camp with her, but it all works out in the end.