We Are the BabySitters Club, Marisa Crawford
We Are the BabySitters Club, Marisa Crawford
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We Are the Baby-Sitters Club
Essays and Artwork from Grown-Up Readers

Author: Marisa Crawford, Megan Milks, Mara Wilson

Narrator: Brittany Pressley, Ali Ahn, Emily Bauer, Erin Moon, Susan Heyward, Leigh Ponce, Daniel Henning, Dani Martineck, Nikki Massoud, Marisa Crawford, Megan Milks, Mara Wilson

Unabridged: 7 hr 27 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/06/2021

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included

Synopsis

A nostalgia-packed, star-studded anthology featuring contributors such as Kristen Arnett, Yumi Sakugawa, Myriam Gurba, and others exploring the lasting impact of Ann M. Martin’s beloved Baby-Sitters Club series

In 1986, the first-ever meeting of the Baby-Sitters Club was called to order in a messy bedroom strewn with RingDings, scrunchies, and a landline phone. Kristy, Claudia, Stacey, and Mary Anne launched the club that birthed an entire generation of loyal readers.
 
Ann M. Martin’s Baby-Sitters Club series featured a complex cast of characters and touched on an impressive range of issues that were underrepresented at the time: divorce, adoption, childhood illness, class division, and racism, to name a few.

In We Are the Baby-Sitters Club, writers and a few visual artists from the original BSC generation will reflect on the enduring legacy of Ann M. Martin’s beloved series, thirty-five years later—celebrating the BSC’s profound cultural influence.
 
Contributors include Paperback Crush author Gabrielle Moss, illustrator Siobhán Gallagher, and filmmaker Sue Ding, as well as New York Times bestselling author Kristen Arnett, Lambda Award–finalist Myriam Gurba, Black Girl Nerds founder Jamie Broadnax, and Paris Review contributor Frankie Thomas.
 
One of LitHub's Most Anticipated Books of 2021, We Are the Baby-Sitters Club looks closely at how Ann M. Martin’s series shaped our ideas about gender politics, friendship, fashion and beyond.

*Includes a downloadable PDF containing artwork and photographs from the book

About The Author

Marisa Crawford is a poet and cultural critic whose writing has appeared in The Nation, VICE, Bitch, BUST, Ms., The Rumpus, Hyperallergic, and elsewhere. She is the author of two collections of poetry and the founder of Weird Sister, a website and organization that explores the intersections of feminism, literature, and pop culture. Megan Milks is an award-winning fiction author with a debut novel forthcoming in 2021. Their stories have been published in three anthologies, as well as journals including Fence, PANK, LIT, and Yes Femmes. Their critical writing has appeared in Bookforum, 4Columns, Los Angeles Review of Books, The New Inquiry, and elsewhere.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Megan on April 08, 2021

This was Marisa’s Great Idea... I jumped at the chance to team up with her on it and I’m so proud of the work we, and all our contributors, have done here. Baby-Sitters Club fans, we have so much tremendously good writing and art in store for you—from Kristen Arnett’s essay on role playing as BSC ch......more

Goodreads review by steph on December 29, 2021

I feel like if you grew up during the 80's and 90's in America this is probably the book for you. I was never a giant fan of the BSC, I know some girls who read THEM ALL and that was not me (I just read a lot as a kid in general) but I did read a bunch of the books and watched the 1995 movie. I love......more

Goodreads review by Nev on March 29, 2021

This was such a great collection of essays and art looking back at The Baby-Sitters Club and the impact that series had on different people’s lives. I think this struck the perfect balance between nostalgic celebration and critical analysis of aspects of the series that didn’t age so well. Contribut......more

Goodreads review by Kyle on February 02, 2023

I loved The Baby-sitters Club growing up. I had so many books from the series, and considered it my favorite series. This set of essays was written by a bunch of adults who grew up with the series just as I did, and it talked about the impact The Baby-sitters Club series had on them and on society.......more

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