Series Review: Baby-Sitters' Club

As I read several of these books in fifth grade, I was super excited to learn about this series. I couldn't wait to watch it - and I wasn't disappointed.

Spoiler: it was PERFECT

It was a modern day adaptation, but it kept the phone line. Obviously you have to have the phone line for the meetings.

I loved seeing the character stories I remember from the books - even if they were very different (the camp stories). But I love the updates.

Things I Loved:

ALL the Inclusivity

Friendships

Family

Mistakes

Protest

Babysitting Moments

Boys

The sister moment(s)

Talking about the internment camps

Mimi

Watson

The Parent Trap Dance

Karen's Creepiness 

That Clueless Reference!

The casting was Really Well Done.

I honestly wouldn't change a thing about this series. It captured the heart of the book series.

When does Season 2 come out?

Fun Fact: Author and Editor David Levithan worked as a book consultant for the show.

Top Ten Tuesday: Childhood Favorites

This week's topic is Childhood Favorites. I've already talked about several books I loved from my childhood - here's a Top Ten Post and here's my Reading History but there are some books (of course) that I haven't talked about - so here they are.

 

 

 So many fond memories of these books:

All for Fall

B is for Betsy

Madeline

Miss Nelson is Missing

Pooh's School House

Cranberry Christmas

Corduroy

Little Women

Story of Holly and Ivy

Runaway Sleigh Ride

Review: Paperback Crush

Gabrielle Moss writes about the tween and teen books of the 90s and 80s - the first golden age of teen books where the Baby-Sitters Club and Sweet Valley High ruled the school.

My Thoughts: I couldn't put this book down!

I loved learning tidbits about the publishing world during this time. I loved the snark. I loved the nostalgic feeling this book gave me. It made me want to go back and read some of these books again. No surprise here - I read several of these books.

I was a bit disappointed that this book didn't talk about Freshman Dorm.

I'm an Elizabeth.

I wanted to be Claudia (for her art skills and all that candy hidden around her room.)

My Reading History: Children's Fiction Years

 I was at a YA Librarian day a few weeks back and Teri Lesesne spoke about having everyone in her class create a reading history. It sounded like fun, so I thought I'd give it a try.

As I grew older, I wanted to read the books my sister read. I re-read books that I loved often. I used the library. I had my own books and shared books with my sister. 

We went through a Judy Blume phase.

The Little House books:

And the scary books:

Then the Babysitter Club books hit and that's all I read for a long time.

In 6th grade, I started to hide my reading, but I did check several of these out of the school library. They might have been my first romance books.

Ten Things

Ten Books - favorite read from my childhood in no particular order

Many of the books I read, my sister and I both read. We have similar tastes - still do some times. She read them, passed them on to me. She taught me how to read at an early age.

There's no Such Thing as a Dragon: This book we kept at my Grandparent's house. I thought it was hilarious as the dragon grew and grew.

Potter's Kitchen: I loved the idea behind this book - the kitchen is the heart of the home. I still believe this - it also could be something to do with all the goodies in the kitchen.


Ernie's Little Lie: I loved the art aspect of this book - it probably foreshadowed my love of art.


Just as Long as We're Together: I read this book until it fell apart. I didn't realize there were other books in the series until recently. I can't wait to go back and spend time with those characters again. Again - this had a very different cover.


Winter Dreams, Christmas Love: My sister and I adored this book. We borrowed it from our cousin and "forgot" to give it back. She found it in my sister's closet a year later. unfortunately, my sister gave it back. I think we had words over it :)


Witches: Another book my sister and I loved. I read this one until it fell apart. I don't know why, but I've never read any of his other works.


Leave the Cooking to Me: My Mom made me buy this in a bookstore. I thought it looked horrible, but I was wrong. I really enjoyed it.


Emily of New Moon: I read this series over and over again. I always wished they made a movie series of these books as they did with the Anne books - which I also loved.


Tales of Fourth Grade Nothing: This book was hilarious! Of course the cover was different. There are certain parts of this book - and other featuring Peter and his brother that I will always remember. I also was so excited to meet Judy Blume when I was in library school. We had "a moment" when the man introducing her got her book titles wrong. She saw me frown at him.


B is for Betsy: I loved this series -as did my sister, also named Betsey. Plus, my birthday is on Christmas Eve - I felt such a connection with the younger sister Star. I started reading these in first grade - and loved them