We Are the Baby-Sitters Club

Name: We Are the Baby-Sitters Club
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Essays and Artwork from Grown-Up Readers

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We Are the Baby-Sitters Club explores the enduring impact of the beloved book series on readers and fans. Through essays and illustrations, it delves into themes of friendship, adolescence, and representation, offering heartfelt reflections on the cultural significance of the series. The book celebrates how the Baby-Sitters Club inspired creativity and community among its followers.
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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 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 Siobhn 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.

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We Are the Baby-Sitters Club is celebrated as an anthology that delves into the nostalgia and personal connections fans have with Ann M. Martin's beloved series. It offers both heartfelt tributes and nuanced critiques from grown-up fans, reflecting on themes like girlhood, identity, and cultural impact. The essays resonate with a sense of reunion and nostalgia, bridging the experiences of childhood and adulthood while taking the series' cultural significance seriously.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781641604901

Publisher: Chicago Review Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 06 July 2021

Country: United States

Imprint: Chicago Review Press

Illustration: Illustrations

Contributors:

Edited by Marisa Crawford
Edited by Megan Milks
Foreword by Mara Wilson

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 228.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 240

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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.