We Are the Baby-Sitters Club

Essays and Artwork from Grown-Up Readers

De: Marisa Crawford - editor, Megan Milks - editor, Mara Wilson - foreword

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

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 from the original BSC generation will reflect on the enduring legacy of Ann M. Martin’s beloved series, 35 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 best-selling 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

©2021 Respective authors of all material within (P)2022 Random House Audio

A staple

As a 90s girl who grew up with the books , movie , and tv shows I was so happy to find this book randomly- many of the essays were relatable & made me look at the series and characters differently. Some sections I had to skip but overall this was such a great collection.

A great list of essays by fans, and for fans.

An excellent collection of essays for fans of the book series. Very impressed that 4 of the narrators for the BSC audio books took part in this, among others. Well done, even if I was born around the time the series came out, and got introduced to the audio versions a few years ago.