Baby-Sitters Little Sister Boxed Set #1

by Ann M. Martin

1. Karen's Witch
2. Karen's Roller Skates
3. Karen's Worst Day
4. Karen's Kittycat Club

Genres: Childrens, Middle Grade, Juvenile

Boxed Set

First published October 1, 1990

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

[Leeland Parten · Rating 5 out of 5]

It was interesting and a good book

[InYourFaceNewYorker · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read this in French! What a great way to practice!

[Taylor]

Karen's friend Nancy is going to be a big sister, because her mom is going to have a baby. At first Karen is so jealous. But since Nancy is so nice she is going to share the baby with her. Now karen is pumped! Nancy might even be able to bring the baby for show and share at school. Karen cant wait any longer for the baby to be born. But will it just be all crying and no fun?

[Hannah · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really liked this Karen's Witch. It was pretty interesting and intertaining. I liked that no matter what her friends and family thought about the neighbor not being a witch she kept her on opinion about it.

[Liz · Rating 4 out of 5]

I loved these books when I was a kid! I had and read them all!!

[Imalay · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a very interested book I like it very much.

[LizthePrude · Rating 3 out of 5]

I remember reading this series as a young girl and loving them.

[Bubbles · Rating 5 out of 5]

this book is about a girl named karen who gets new roller skates but when she tries to do a super cool trick which makes her arm which is really sad because she just got her roller skates

[Meg · Rating 4 out of 5]

i LOVED these books and would always have 3 on my night table/shelf just incase i couldn't sleep. Oh Karen!

[Melissa · Rating 4 out of 5]

THE ENTIRE SERIES WAS MY FAVE!!! But this was the beginning book. I had over 100 of the books :)

[Kat · Rating 5 out of 5]

I've actually read most of the whole series but didn't feel like adding all them. Great books! I wish I had kept them, I could have given them to my best friends daughters...

[Val]

Wow, I totally forgot about these books (though I obviously remembered the Baby Sitter's books). I read a good bit of these books, but I'd never be able to remember how many.

[Noreen]

very intresting

[Robyn · Rating 5 out of 5]

The books that got me hooked on reading. I went through them 1 per day!

[CELO · Rating 2 out of 5]

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