num_pages: 209
description: A nostalgia-packed star-studded anthology featuring contributors such as Kristen Arnett Yumi Sakugawa Gabrielle Moss and others exploring the lasting impact of the 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 Ring-Dings scrunchies and a landline phone. Kristy Claudia Stacey and Mary Anne launched the club that birthed an entire generation of loyal readers. The Baby-Sitters Club series featured a diverse 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 Generation BSC will reflect on the enduring legacy of Ann M. Martin's beloved series thirty-five years latercelebrating the BSC's profound cultural influence. Contributors include author Gabrielle Moss illustrator Siobhn Gallagher and filmmaker Sue Ding as well as New York Times bestselling author Kristen Arnett Lambda Awardfinalist Myriam Gurba Black Girl Nerds founder Jamie Broadnax and Paris Review contributor Frankie Thomas. The first anthology of its kind from editors Marisa Crawford and Megan Milks We Are the Baby-Sitters Club will look closely at how Ann M. Martin's series shaped our ideas about gender politics friendship fashion and beyondand what makes the series still a core part of many readers' identities so many years later.
language: English
title: We Are the Baby-Sitters Club: Essays and Artwork from Grown-Up Readers
publisher: Chicago Review Press