Babysitters Club

1. I started babysitting when I was around 13 or 14.
2. For several months I worked overtime evenings and weekends in another department doing something completely different from my weekday job.
3. It‘s easy to let work take over your life, so you have to be mindful of keeping boundaries.
#wondrouswednesday

Eggs

Eggs Thanks for joining in 🥳 1y

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Tera66

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#WonderousWednesday @Eggs
Thank you @DarkMina🖤 for the tag!
I forgot to.come back and do it yesterday

🍁The Babysitter's Club, I loved them so much, so glad Netflix has adapted them recently.
🍁Rainy☔🌧 and cold and and snowy❄.
🍁 My mom's chicken 🐔 noodle soup🍲. It's delicious 😋

Eggs How nice! Thanks for joining in Tera 💖💖 @Tera66 3y

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DanaManiac

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1- The Babysitters Club and RL Stine books 📚 for sure!!
2- Either under a shady tree 🌳 on a warm day or snuggled on the couch 🛋 with blankets on a rainy day.
3- Today I‘m grateful for an abundance of soup 🍲 recipes to carry me through this cold fall weather! 🍁 🍂 #wondrouswednesday

Thanks for the tag @robinb ☺️

Eggs

robinb Soup‘s one of my favorite things! ❤️ 3y

Eggs Stay warm and cozy 🔥🥰📚 3y

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Ast_Arslan

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#WondrousWednesday @Eggs ❤

1. The baby-sitters club ❤
2. When it's rainy or foggy ❤
3. For my family and friends ❤

Eggs ❤️📚🥰 3y

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Susanita

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1. First job was babysitting. First job with a paycheck was as a waitress.
2. Several, from Mrs. Yeoman in 2nd grade to Spanish professor Dr. Greenia and many in between.
3. Two years ago on my birthday it was Caturday at the ballpark, the home team won, and I think we went out to dinner after the game.
#wondrouswednesday

Eggs

Eggs Thanks for playing-lovely memories 🤗 3y

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CaseyTheCanadianLesbrarian

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I know it's kind of sacrilege but I really did like it more than the books! And I was a huge fan of the original books! Any other #BSC fans want to weigh in? #BabysittersClub
https://bookriot.com/babysitters-club-netflix-series/

Andrea313 I can't say I liked the Netflix series better, because the books have so much of my own nostalgia wrapped up with them, and they are their own (wonderful) animal. But I think the reboot was nearly pitch-perfect all around and have watched it more times than I care to admit! The updates were handled so naturally and there were plenty of Easter eggs for us 80s and 90s kids. I give it an A+! 4y

CaseyTheCanadianLesbrarian @Andrea313 Yes I loved the easter eggs too! My grade would also be A+ 😍 4y

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Kaylamburson

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Binged this yesterday and today, and it was so much fun! Also shocked by how many times it made me cry--I'm such a sap! The perfect mix of nostalgia with a modern twist. I need to reread the books now as I don't remember much from when I read them as a kid.
Has anyone else read them or watched the Netflix remake? Which character are you most like? I think I'm a MaryAnn.

MrBook I remember my babysitters had them back in the day. 🙂 4y

Kaylamburson It was the thing to read for all babysitter's!! The dream to have a group of friends as amazing as that. @MrBook 4y

MrBook Aye! 🍻 4y

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melissajayne It was the only series I would read. I wanted to have a group of friends like that and mostly I wanted a phone in my room like Claudia. I‘m more of a Mary Anne as well. I‘ve watched the first four. (edited) 4y

thegirlwiththelibrarybag I loved these books as a kid and have recently been enjoying the graphic novel adaptations. The show is on my to watch list! 4y

Bookish_B Watched this last weekend. BSC is one of the reasons I became a reader. The show is super cute! 4y

fleeting I loved the show so much too! I thought it would be geared towards kids but friends and I enjoyed this (we're in our 30s 😄) 4y

SamanthaMarie I was obsessed with the books when I was younger!! I am saving the show for when my husband deploys as a pick me up (or apparently for a good cry haha!) I am a total sap, I can't wait! I am a Mary Ann with a smidge of Dawn. Definitely not a Kristy, Stacy, or Claudia, even though I admired them! I also really liked Mallory and Jessi. Okay, I will stop droning on 🤣 4y

DGRachel I never read the books, but I loved the Netflix series and now I kind of want to read the books! 4y

Kaylamburson @melissajayne, yes! I still want a group of friends like that. And I love that they brought back the phone (thanks to Etsy 🤣). 4y

Kaylamburson @thegirlwiththelibrarybag I want to reread the series and try out the graphic novel adaptations. There's also a short 15 min documentary on Netflix about how amazing of a character Claudia Kishi is, and the illustrator for the graphic novels is in it! Highly recommend! 4y

Kaylamburson It was so cute! @Bookish_B @fleeting. I also assumed it would be too young for me (almost 30, ha), but I just loved it. I wonder if it's mostly people nostalgic for the original watching it or if a lot of tweens are checking it out. 4y

Kaylamburson @SamanthaMarie , this will be the perfect pick-me-up for that moment. So much nostalgia, and it was all happy tears. Nothing sad! I do not relate to Kristy, haha, but they are all amazing characters. Dawn and Claudia are just too cool for me, lol. It seems Mallory and Jessi will make an appearance if there's a season 2! They are briefly in the last episode! 4y

Kaylamburson I really want to read the books, too! All the characters are so cool. And there's a cool documentary on Netlfix (15 min) focused on the admiration people have for the character of Claudia Kishi! @DGRachel 4y

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alisiakae

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We‘re doing a thing!

The series that sparked a lifelong love of reading.💜

#BSCreread #motherdaughterbookclub #BSC #babysittersclub

Blaire Fun!! I adored these books! There‘s a hilarious podcast where they read each of these and discuss (babysitters club club), but it is not child appropriate. 5y

alisiakae @Blaire I‘ve heard of that podcast! 5y

LiteraryinPA I LOVED this series when I was in elementary and middle school. The girls felt like my own friends! 5y

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alisiakae @LiteraryinLititz me too! I had some rough years with bullying in middle school. I definitely used BSC as a coping mechanism. And also Stephen King. 🤣 (edited) 5y

Caroline2 I LOVED this series!!! 💖 5y

LaraS Gah! I love the old school covers! 😍And @Blaire I‘ve never heard of that podcast but it sounds like great fun. Pretty sure I‘m gonna spend my whole weekend on that now. 🥳 (edited) 5y

Blaire @LaraS I hope you like it!! Def start back at episode 1 because there are a lot of long-running jokes that make no sense if you start in the middle. The guys have real love for the books and their interpretations are so funny. 5y

alisiakae @LaraS These are my original books! 😍😍 One and two went missing in one of our many moves, but I have life‘s of the others! 5y

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FantasyChick

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Today's games are a bit easier #JingleBallers

Tell me your favourite childhood book and when you last read it!

I loved the Babysitter's Club. No particular book but the entire series. I haven't read one since elementary school

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@MoonWitch94 @EadieB @erank58 @Book.ish @TheBookDream @CSeydel @LaurensLibrary @Laura317 @TheDrunkenLibrarian @SamAnne @SmartSassery @amcollins @wideeyedreader @IndoorDame

MoonWitch94 Charlotte‘s Web. Not in many years. 5y

Laura317 Whoa, Joey! Whoa was my favorite book. I found it on eBay a couple of years ago and snatched it. It‘s about a baby kangaroo whose jumps are all over the place. The pictures make the book. 5y

IndoorDame The Secret Garden. It‘s been years. 5y

CSeydel Locked in Time by Lois Duncan. Probably 1988 5y

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IhoardBOOKS

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My school wanted to hold me back in kindergarten because my reading ability and told my ma to not expect much from me in the future. She took the summer to work with me and by the time I went back I was a 4th grade reading level, the next summer I‘d moved up to a high school reading level. The Babysitters Club was one of the first series I really remember reading, I‘ve read lots of books since but this was among the first to make an impression.

TheBookbabeblog84

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Audible is bringing to life a part of my childhood. I feel like these will be worth the re-read just for the memories. #books #annmmartin #books #babysittersclub

rather_be_reading 😮😮😮 5y

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ness

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Um, excuse me?????

fenchxrch I read ALL the books books when I was in middle school. Not sure how I feel about this! 5y

SkeletonKey Whoooooaaa. 5y

Megabooks @fenchxrch Same!! 5y

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Honeybeegirl

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Babysitting has its perks, I get to spend time with a sweet kitty and 2 little boys ... who are currently screaming

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Djspens

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It's been five days since I picked up a book that doesn't include pictures of dinosaurs or princesses (see previous post). Mom and dad should be home soon and baby is snoozing. Being Gramma is definitely the best gig in the world!! I love these kiddos and am going to miss them like crazy when I go home tomorrow💗💗💗 luckily they don't live too terribly far away! #dogsoflitsy #glammagramma #ilovemygrandkids

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KatieDid927

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Didn‘t do the signing with her but omg guys, Ann M. Martin! Middle school me is freaking out. #BookCon

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Kaylamburson

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"Just like friendship, listening is everything." Yay for new Litsy friends!! @bookandcat #bookcon2019 #audible #babysittersclub

tracey38 Love it! 5y

Kaylamburson Thanks, @tracey38 !! 5y

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bookish_wookish

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Current situation.....

Mccall0113 O. M. G. 6y

BeansPage 😂😂😂 6y

riversong153 How much money is that?? 😱 6y

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Crazeedi 😂❤ 6y

Clwojick 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 6y

JoScho Get it girl! 6y

bookish_wookish Hold on its about to a math problem...there was 56 at 1.79 each and its buy 4 get 1 free soooooo @riversong153 6y

Bookwormjillk Jealous! Love the BSC! 6y

riversong153 @bookish_wookish sounds like toilet paper math lol. 1 two ply mega roll = 3 rolls or something like that 😂😂😂 I never figure it out!! 6y

bookish_wookish Yesss 🤣🤣 @riversong153 plus i had 20% aaaand i bought some other things besides books soooo lol 6y

Bookartbookmarks 🙌 6y

twohectobooks I just started listening to a podcast called The Babysitters Club Club where two guys read and talk about all of the BSC books and based on this photo you may enjoy it as well hehe. 6y

Bookish_B Yessss!! ❤️🙌🏼 6y

bookish_wookish Oooo i may have to check it out! @twohectobooks 6y

xxjenadanxx Omg score! I want to recollect them as all mine were lost in a move during high school. 😭 6y

rather_be_reading 😍 one of my indies has alot too. ive been waiting to go back and get them 6y

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bookish_wookish

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Id say todays trip the thriftstore was a success!! 🙃

Sleepswithbooks How fun!! 6y

Busha1984 That brings back all the memories! 6y

bookish_wookish Yesss! Thats kind of what got me started in trying to find them again! @Busha1984 6y

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JoScho Score!!!! 6y

Busha1984 @bookish_wookish what do you think of them now, reading them as an adult versus when you were a teen? Still loce them? I've been debating about trying to track them down 6y

bookish_wookish I havent starting rereading them yet. I wanted to read them in order but i think it may take too long to find them so i think i may just start them now! @Busha1984 6y

bookish_wookish Buy 4 get 1 free! 🙌🏼 @joscho 6y

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Kshakal

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It is even more amazing in real life!!! 🤓💖🤓

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bookish_wookish

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So at Barnes and Noble this same exact set is $42!!!! Amazon has it for $27.84!!! Im soooo tempted to get it! I need this in my life! 😩📚

Avanders I SAW this, this weekend. 😨😨😨 it was harrrrrd pawing it up 6y

bookish_wookish Yessss! @avanders 6y

Kshakal I just ordered it from scholastic book order at school!! 6y

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bookish_wookish Ooo i wonder if my sons book fair will have it! Was it any cheaper? @Kshakal 6y

Kshakal @bookish_wookish it was only $15 6y

bookish_wookish 😱 @Kshakal 6y

Kshakal @bookish_wookish I know! I was shocked when you said Barnes and noble had it for 40 some! 6y

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bookish_wookish

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OMG my local Barnes & Noble just posted this on their Instagram! Theres a Babysitters Club Book Collection and it looks like it comes in fancy packaging!! I need this! I looked on the BN website but cant find it! 😫 Im going to have to go there tomorrow!

Bookworm.Nerd Ooh 😍 I might have to check that out soon I read that as a middle schooler and teen ☺️ 6y

Mariposa_Bookworm It‘s part of the holiday box sets at B& N. It may only be available in the store. I work at a B&N and we have ours right up front by the register. 6y

bookish_wookish More reason for me to go into the store! @Mariposa_Bookworm 6y

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kimmypete1

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1. Loved me some Babysitter‘s Club. Will admit now I probably read them way past when I should, but I just wasn‘t willing to part with them. Mary Anne + Logan forever.
2. Brownies
3. Mountain Biking
4. San Diego (If money were no object!)

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Purrfectpages

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Just started listening to this podcast on the way home and it‘s pretty hysterical. Anyone else ever give this a listen?

MelissaSue81 I listened to one or two episodes. I thought the guys were kinda annoying. 6y

Purrfectpages @MelissaSue81 maybe they get annoying the more you listen. So far I‘ve found them to be pretty funny. 6y

Zelma I enjoyed this up to a point and stopped listening when they moved past the books I‘d read. I only read the first 30ish books that Martin wrote (none of the ghostwritten ones) so I had fun reliving those through these guys‘ eyes. As far as the podcast, it takes a few episodes before they find their rhythm. 6y

Zelma Once you get to their bee theory, it does become quite amusing. I am all about the bees. 6y

Purrfectpages @Zelma I didn‘t even know some of them were ghost written! I do enjoy their banter though. They cracking themselves up about Claudia wearing a bra and boys just being invented manages to make me chuckle every time. (edited) 6y

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Bamazin

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This entire series is golden. Found a bunch of them at the flea market.

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Whimsical.Curiosity

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194 BSC books ever written. I want to say I read them all but that was years ago. Who remembers these? I just loved them! 🍷🦖📚

#nostalgia #childhood #babysittersclub #firstcharactercrush

AsYouWish I loved them!!! I know I didn't read them all, I think I read more of the Mary-Ann books because she was my favorite. Now that they are turning some of them into graphic novels, I have started to reread them in that format. 6y

WhatThePuck I read some of them, but I stuck mostly to Goosebumps and Fear Street. 6y

callielafleur I read all of them up to a certain point, then I moved in to other things. If you enjoy these, I highly recommend The Babysitters Club Club podcast, it's very funny. 6y

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KristinaRay This was my first book series as a kid. I would buy them with my allowance. I loved them and used to have the entire collection until the got ruined by the rain at my mom‘s house. 6y

KristinaRay @AsYouWish I didn‘t know they were being made into graphic novels. I‘m definitely gonna have to check those out. 6y

AsYouWish @KristinaRay I have read the first four books and they are awesome! Last I saw they have made 1-6 into the graphic novels. 6y

watermelontaco13 I read bunch of the early books but I really liked how each member had their own personal book and I loved the California Diaries that followed Dawn and her friend. 6y

PaperbackPirate I loved these books but I had no idea there are 194! 6y

Stacy_31 I loved these book as a child, but also had no idea there were 194! I think the last I read was somewhere in the 30‘s or 40‘s. 6y

inthegreensandblues This was my first favorite series! One Christmas my parents gave me two box sets - maybe the first dozen or so in the series? - and I spent the whole winter break devouring them! I don't know how far I stuck with the BSC, maybe to the 40s? I also loved the Super Specials! 6y

zzz These were awesome! 6y

tracey38 I don't know how many I read in the 80s and early 90s but it was a lot! 6y

tdrosebud I loved this series. I would read and reread so many of them. I know a few were eventually held together with tape... 6y

Sargar114 I LOVED them!!! I would have loved to be able to say I read them all...but I didn‘t...but how I dreamt of being in a babysitters club. I definitely reread the first few multiple times. I wonder how they would read now.... 6y

hissingpotatoes I still have mine! Don't have all 194, but most. Agree with @watermelontaco13 that I loved the California Diaries and the issues those books dealt with. 6y

Jenny Just started the graphic novels! What s trip! Have you heard they might make a tv show? 6y

tonyahoswalt I loved them! I'm hoping to do an reread as an adult sometime. 6y

EH2018 Loved them!! I even made a babysitters kit...i have even read the graphic novels they have now 6y

Purrfectpages I think I read them all too! 6y

Whimsical.Curiosity @AsYouWish GRAPHIC NOVELS YOU SAY?! 😁😁 6y

Whimsical.Curiosity @AsYouWish Mary Anne was my fave too!! 6y

Whimsical.Curiosity @callielafleur I had no idea that was even a thing! I'll check it out for sure. Ty! 6y

Whimsical.Curiosity @watermelontaco13 that spin off was great! 6y

Whimsical.Curiosity @PaperbackPirate @Stacy_31 right?! So many! 6y

Whimsical.Curiosity @inthegreensandblues my parents did something similar and it was the best Christmas ever! The super special were amazing. 6y

Whimsical.Curiosity @tracey38 niiiiiice! I loved that they were numbered haha the ocd in me appreciated that 6y

Whimsical.Curiosity @tdrosebud can totally relate! 6y

Whimsical.Curiosity @Jenny @EH2018 @tonyahoswalt this graphic novel business is blowing my mind! Must read! 🤣 6y

Whimsical.Curiosity @Purrfectpages high fives!! 6y

Whimsical.Curiosity @Sargar114 yes me too! They were amazing! I almost wish I still had them. Did you hear this graphic novel and podcast business? That's crazy! I'm gonna check em out. 6y

AsYouWish @Whimsical.Curiosity Oh yes and they are as amazing as they sound! 6y

tracey38 @Whimsical.Curiosity I do remember reading them in order, going to the library to see if they had the next few in. Just can't remember if I got through them all. 6y

Whimsical.Curiosity @AsYouWish 🤗🥂🍾🌈 6y

Whimsical.Curiosity @tracey38 I loved that! Having the number written down and trying to find them in order. It was so much fun. 6y

Sargar114 @Whimsical.Curiosity I heard about a podcast...color me intrigued 6y

Whimsical.Curiosity @Sargar114 be fun to play in the car 6y

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LauraBeth

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“There is an untapped treasure trove of iconic girlhood nostalgia just waiting to be exploited for the big screen. Yet Hollywood is sleeping on all of it, to instead give us yet another $200 million remember-when-Geek-culture-was-only-for-dudes nostalgia trip.”

Here‘s to girlhood nostalgia 🙌 #foreverforever

https://mashable.com/2018/03/13/girlhood-teen-girl-fiction-nostalgia-movie-adapt...

DebinHawaii

Clare-Dragonfly Those are some great ideas! 7y

DebinHawaii Yes to girlhood nostalgia!! 💕😆 7y

Crewgurl I thought this was really happening for a second and got so excited!!!! 7y

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alisiakae

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1. @DeweysReadathon
2. As a young child
3. BSC, The Secret Garden, The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Fear Street
4. Dog Whistle Politics
5. Fandom: Female superheroes Hobby: hiking
6. The 100
7. Gnomes
8. #tbrbingo #screamathon #popsugar #diversitybingo2017
9. OwlCrate
10. My Women's Lit prof, and my birth mother (unknowingly at the time, but as an adult I learned she was read constantly)

#10questions

LazyOwl

CocoReads Ooh, I'd forgotten about The Witch of Blackbird Pond! I loved that book! 7y

MarriedtoMrT The Witch of Blackbird Pond is one of mine, too! 7y

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FairyHighRoad

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One of my favorite #childhoodreads was The Babysitter's Club. Dawn was my favorite! #publishedinthe80s #riotgrams #junebookbugs

HannaPolkadots Just looking at this picture and I'm 11 again 💛💛 7y

mcipher The clothes!! Remember Claudia's crazy outfits and how she'd always describe them in such detail? 😍😂 7y

MommyOfTwo Oh my, I forgot about these books! 7y

Jess_Read_This @mcipher Yes!! I'd try to hide candy my room like Claudia and end up just eating it all in the span of a day... 🙈 7y

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mischa

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Ah, twitter

mjdowens 😂😂 8y

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dariazeoli

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I have to thank @awishman for telling me there was a BSC podcast. I'm ten episodes in and it's hysterical!

I read those books thirty years ago and retained so much. Cam Geary! Bad eighties outfits! Mary Anne's shoe flying off at the dance!

And yet, I can barely remember what I read last month.

awishman Yay! I'm so glad you're enjoying it! 8y

ReadingSusan I keep hearing such good things about this podcast but the tragedy of this is that I never read the books 😭 My mom wouldn't let me. Still so bitter lol 8y

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uncorkedthoughts

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Taking a trip down memory lane with my favourite babysitters 😍💕📚

#annmmartin #babysittersclub #childhood #favourite #reading #middlegrade

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tasha

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Oh the #nostalgia! I #read so many of these as a #tween. I picked up #books 1-103 for $10! There are a few missing in between thou. But I will find them!! #TheSearchIsOn #BabysittersClub #bookfind #booklove #AnnMMartin #LitsyFeature

annahenke Have you listened to the babysitter's club CLUB podcast? It's hilarious! Two guys doing literary analysis (real or imagined) on every book in the series. SO FUNNY! 8y

tasha @annahenke I have not!! I'll have to check that out. Thanks! 8y

Alma Memories ... 😍 8y

snap_me_chika OMG! I remember I was crazy about them once upon a time! 8y

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