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We are the Baby-Sitters Club : essays and artwork from grown-up readers / edited by Marisa Crawford and Megan Milks ; [foreword by Mara Wilson].

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Chicago, Illinois : Chicago Review Press, [2021]

Martin, Ann M., 1955- -- Appreciation.

Martin, Ann M., 1955- Baby-sitters Club.

Martin, Ann M., 1955- Baby-sitters Club -- History and criticism.

9781641604901 (trade paperback) :

xiii, 209 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Foreword / Mara Wilson -- Introduction: We are the Baby-Sitters Club / Marisa Crawford and Megan Milks -- Say hello to your friends: girl groups and friendship culture -- Fashion statements: personal style in the BSC -- The BSC and us: on seeing ourselves reflected (or not) -- Be bossy: entrepreneurship and the business of babysitting -- Great ideas: the world beyond Stoneybrook.

"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. 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"--

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