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Title: The Baby-Sitters Club
Post by: zuse on Thursday 20 May 2010, 06:32 pm
Whenever I get the nostalgia bug, these are the sites I go to. If I ever find old BSC books in GOOD condition with the original covers, I still buy them! I need to make a list of the ones I have!

http://claudiasroom.blogspot.com/
http://www.whatclaudiawore.com/
http://www.thehiddenbookcase.com/babysitters_club.html
http://bsc-girl.livejournal.com/
http://community.livejournal.com/babysittersclub/
http://stoneybrookmscafe.blogspot.com/

This site had scans of the covers, but I don't know what happened to it?
http://www.dibbly-fresh.com/

UK BSC
http://www.angelfire.com/anime3/happydance/

Some of the Merchandise, Dolls, etc.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/galleries/1468/1
http://www.hingepepper.com/bscpage.htm

Some avatars!
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v169/kristenish/iqdesigns/bsc/bsc030.png)
http://poire-gourmande.livejournal.com/63484.html
http://community.livejournal.com/ohh_redlace/10319.html
http://community.livejournal.com/ohh_redlace/7815.html

There's a forum?
http://babysittersclub.proboards.com/
Title: Re: The Baby-Sitters Club
Post by: WordFuzion on Thursday 20 May 2010, 10:14 pm
AWESOME! I just started re-reading the series for the first time since I was a kid! It's sort of fun, going after an out of print series that's not always easy to find. It's a book quest! :D

I started with the first one I read as a kid, #9 "The Ghost At Dawn's House" and then read the Graphic Novels that are #1 #3 #4 and #7 in the normal series. Now I'm just grabbing whatever I can find wherever I can find it and checking it off the list. :D

Title: Re: The Baby-Sitters Club
Post by: zuse on Thursday 20 May 2010, 11:19 pm
Yeah! One of my favorites was in the Mystery Series (The Surfer Ghost). Granted a lot of the BSC mysteries weren't *really* mysteries, haha. After all the ghostwriters started writing the series jumped the shark a bit, as they say. ;)
Title: Re: The Baby-Sitters Club
Post by: Eilonwe on Friday 21 May 2010, 03:52 am
I love the BSC. I'm partway through my rereading, currently on #53.
Title: Re: The Baby-Sitters Club
Post by: WordFuzion on Saturday 22 May 2010, 12:55 am
@zuse  I'm a Twilight fan, so obviously I'm pretty laid back in my standards of literature. Sometimes it's okay just to have a fun read and that's what I love about the BSC books. Not to mention they're a time warp for me of growing up in the 80's and 90's. Nostalgia...I haz it. ;)
Title: Re: The Baby-Sitters Club
Post by: zuse on Saturday 22 May 2010, 01:30 am
@zuse  I'm a Twilight fan, so obviously I'm pretty laid back in my standards of literature.

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Title: Re: The Baby-Sitters Club
Post by: princess_lucy on Thursday 01 July 2010, 08:29 pm
I let my Mum sell all my Babysitters Club books at a carboot sale, BIG MISTAKE! lol I had all the specials and everything in perfect condition :(
Title: Re: The Baby-Sitters Club
Post by: Ianua on Saturday 03 July 2010, 11:33 am
My mum had a penfriend in Canada who used to send me these books for Christmas birthdays e.t.c and sorry to disagree with you guys but even as an 8 year old I found them to be ineloquently written mindless c**p.
The characters were more 2 dimensional than the paper they were written on.
This series made sweet valley high look like Jane Austin you should all be ashamed of yourselves for adding to the problems of illiteracy by considering these to be books. For shame people. :)
Oh and princess lucy I feel it was a big mistake to let your mother sell these idiotic boring books to poor unsuspecting children. The only other thing I remember is they came with free bookmarks to collect of the characters. Anyone else have them?

Ok rant over :)
Title: Re: The Baby-Sitters Club
Post by: EdenEye on Saturday 03 July 2010, 06:07 pm
I think that was very rude. You insulted people and that is completely unnessecary and horrible! You may not like these books, but who cares what you like. Some people really enjoy these, probably because they remind them of their childhood. I like a lot of things that may sound dorky to most people my age, so it is nice to be able to find kindred souls who enjoy them too. Honestly, if you have nothing nice to say, dont say anything at all.
Title: Re: The Baby-Sitters Club
Post by: catlover51 on Sunday 04 July 2010, 01:00 am
Thumper: [clears throat] If you can't say something nice... don't say nothing at all.
Title: Re: The Baby-Sitters Club
Post by: princess_lucy on Friday 09 July 2010, 08:40 am
And most certainly don't say "for shame people". That's not even a sentence.
Title: Re: The Baby-Sitters Club
Post by: Eilonwe on Friday 09 July 2010, 04:35 pm
Everybody's got a right to like what they like. It is pretty rude to come into a thread where we're enjoying talking about something and spout off like you're intellectually superior for not liking these books. So not necessary.

ANYWAY, so who's everyone's favorite character?

In childhood, mine was Mallory. I read a lot, loved to write, and hated volleyball in gym. I didn't have anything else in common with her, but those things alone made me relate to her more than the others. Although poor Mallory never got the best treatment in the books. And I was surprised how many people who still love the BSC hate Mallory! I still like her, though not as much as others now. Mary Anne and Stacey have gotten to be my faves, but that could change, as I'm still rereading!
Title: Re: The Baby-Sitters Club
Post by: flowersinherhair on Friday 09 July 2010, 05:42 pm
Oh, I loved these books as a kid! I was really into them when I was 7 and 8, and maybe a little beyond that. Honestly, I don't remember a whole lot about them now, but if I came across any copies it might be fun to re-read them. I never owned any of the chapter books, as I got them all out of my school library, but I did have a really cool "chain letter" book! The premise was that they were all apart from each other during the summer, and wrote chain letters to keep in touch. The book had real envelopes glued inside that contained the letters that you could take out and read. One of them even had a friendship bracelet tucked inside! Oh man, I really hope I kept that book, but I can't remember!
Title: Re: The Baby-Sitters Club
Post by: Ianua on Friday 09 July 2010, 05:48 pm
Just like the Jolly postman  ;D
Title: Re: The Baby-Sitters Club
Post by: princess_lucy on Sunday 11 July 2010, 11:46 pm
I named my hamster Mallory after the character lol! Aaaaah childhood obsessions...
Title: Re: The Baby-Sitters Club
Post by: zuse on Friday 23 July 2010, 01:03 am
They weren't any worse than any other formula series they write for little kids. :-P

At the flea market I used to go to was a lady that sold incense and other stuff. She also went through a faze where she sold her AA doll collection. She had a MIB Jessi doll by Kenner that I kept meaning to get but never got. Last time I was there I didn't see it. I should ask her about if she sold it next time I go. (Apparently it's pretty rare!) I will try to make myself feel better by telling myself it probably reeks of incense. But the other MIB dolls I got from her didn't have a problem... :-\
Title: Re: The Baby-Sitters Club
Post by: apanda0622 on Friday 23 July 2010, 05:35 am
I used to have a huge collection of Babysitter Club books.  When I was younger, I used to get them at garage sales and used bookstores, and occasionally a new one at Wal-mart.  I had all the Super ones (white books) and the mysteries (dark books).  And I had many of the regular books.  Aw memories--they were my fav books to read.

Even though I don't have the books, I still have 6 of the tall dolls, but could never find Jessie.

EDIT:  Dawn was my favorite character followed by Kritsy.
Title: Re: The Baby-Sitters Club
Post by: zuse on Friday 23 July 2010, 06:09 am
Wow! I'm jealous! :) I'm working on my collection now. BSC and Animorphs are kind of my random hobby of things to look for when there isn't anything good at the flea market or thrift store. :)

That's bugging me about the Jessi doll. I actually looked up the booth on the flea market web site and they have an online store too. I'm going to ask her if she sold it. I hope it went to someone that will really appreciate it if the doll is really that rare! She was still in her box, and I think it was in really good condition!
Title: Re: The Baby-Sitters Club
Post by: Eilonwe on Friday 23 July 2010, 07:53 pm
Jessi's definitely the hardest to find of the 7. I had the other 6 for a couple years before I finally got her.
Title: Re: The Baby-Sitters Club
Post by: Bren41882 on Saturday 25 September 2010, 01:28 am
I loved The BabySitters Club! I was most like Mary-Anne but Claudia was my fav her Mimi(grandma) reminds me of my step grandmother who's full blood Japeneese she's very much like Claudia's Mimi
Title: Re: The Baby-Sitters Club
Post by: MercurialMonster on Saturday 25 September 2010, 09:04 am
My sister read the BSC books... or at least, my mom bought pretty much all the books she could find for my sister, lol!  The books filled up two and a half shelves on the big bookshelf unit we had at the time.  My mom mostly bought them in boxed sets, and multi-packs through Scholastic book orders that we would bring home from school.   My sister never read all of them, she lost interest in things very quickly, and wasn't much of a reader then, anyways.

I was the reader in our house, and I started to read some of them out of boredom.   I got through the first two or three (maybe more than that, I don't remember) in a few days.  I read about one BSC book a day; I remember my sister getting mad cause it took her a week to read just one.  I can't help it I hyper-focused on books back then (takes me forever to read now, if I even finish the books), lol.
  
But they didn't hold much interest for me, so I didn't get very far into the series.  I was more into fantasy and science fiction as a kid, so reading about ordinary kids didn't really appeal to me much.  Plus, even though I liked playing with some "girl" toys, I just wasn't much interested in reading about a bunch of girls.   I had to deal with them enough at home and school! :P

I don't begrudge anyone else for reading or liking them as an adult.  Heck, I read books of all kinds nowadays, including series intended for "kids".    
 >.> *coughWarriorscough* <.<
Title: Re: The Baby-Sitters Club
Post by: kiddy2468 on Wednesday 20 April 2011, 04:14 am
I love dthat series but it was very frustrating to read them in order or try to because I would get them out from the library and go for the next one and it would be out nad wasn't due for three weeks. They have remade them amd I am actually re-reading them just for fun right now. We used to have alot but they either given away or put away one out of the two. More than likely given away because when we got older we didn't read the books as much as we used to.
Title: Re: The Baby-Sitters Club
Post by: Freeindeed on Wednesday 20 April 2011, 12:35 pm
I used to love the Baby-Sitters Club books! I had a TON of them and the Super Specials and everything... I even had a BSC calendar one year, which was pretty cool! I think it came with stickers. I vaguely remember having a postcard book too.

The only thing I didn't like about them was how they would spend the first two chapters basically repeating the whole story of how Kristy founded the club, and introducing all of the different characters. I guess it was for people who just started reading the series, but it would always annoy me! So I would just skim through the first couple chapters.

I know they were super easy to read and just basically fluff but I loved them anyway! I could finish one book in an hour or two. Then I would spend the rest of the month waiting for the next one to come out... :)

Stacey was always my favorite and I even named one of my pet mice after her in 5th grade! LOL. :)
Title: Re: The Baby-Sitters Club
Post by: zuse on Friday 10 August 2012, 05:37 am
I was thinking today about that Jessie Kenner doll I passed up at the flea market a few years ago. Awhile later when I realized what a great doll it was she didn't have it out anymore (I can't remember if I asked her if she'd sold it, though). Still kicking myself!
Title: Re: The Baby-Sitters Club
Post by: luckdragon on Friday 10 August 2012, 06:29 am
Aww!  Someone at work and I were talking about Babysitter's Club the other day.

I remember the books (of course).  I had bunches of those including all of the Portrait Collection books (personal favorites) and Little Sister books (followed Karen), I had the board game too, and I had the Remco Kristy and Karen doll set.  I think my favorite character was Mary Anne.  I remember the TV series (including the theme song) and the movie.  I still enjoy the movie... :-[

If I remember correctly, the board game wasn't very good...might be why it's so cheap on ebay.
Title: Re: The Baby-Sitters Club
Post by: ramallama on Thursday 23 August 2012, 11:36 pm
I used to love this series!  I always wanted to create my own baby-sitters club with my friends.  I should go back and reread them some day :)