“We started a number of clubs and they were all her idea,” Martin told The Washington Post in 1995. Princeton, New Jersey, where Martin grew up, was the inspiration for BSC’s Stoneybrook, Connecticut, and when it came time to create her characters, Martin drew on her own friendships: Mary Anne and Kristy were based on the author and her best friend Beth, respectively, when they were growing up. And this was just a pretty typical classroom in Connecticut.” I remember at the time being struck by how many came from families in which the parents were divorced or a lot of blended families. “And then I created the four original main characters.” The author, who not long before had been a teacher for a year, said that experience was foremost in her mind: “I was also thinking of the kids in my classroom who came from really different kinds of backgrounds.
“First, I had to decide exactly what a babysitters club might be and I decided that it would be a babysitting business,” Martin told Glamour in 2010. Martin drew from her own friendships and experiences to write The Baby-sitters Club books.
#The babysitter club books series
“All I gave Ann was just a glimmer of an idea-a series about a babysitters club,” Feiwel told Publisher’s Weekly in 2010. Martin-whom she had briefly worked with at Scholastic before Martin left to become a freelance writer-with the idea and the series’ title. “I thought, it must be something about baby-sitting because it’s not something about Ginny or the cover,” Feiwel said. The idea for Baby-sitters Club came when Feiwel noticed that a book called Ginny’s Babysitting Job was a top-seller month after month, despite having “a rotten cover” and being buried on the third or fourth page of the book club's catalog. When Jean Feiwel joined Scholastic in 1983, she was put in charge of the publisher’s preteen and young adult book clubs. Scholastic editor Jean Feiwel came up with the idea and the title for The Baby-sitters Club, then hired Ann M. Here are a few things you might not have known about the hugely popular books, which didn’t just turn kids into readers-it also turned them into babysitters when they created their own real-life clubs. Now, Netflix's version of the beloved book series starts streaming July 3. There was also an HBO series in 1990, and a film in 1995. In 2006, The Baby-sitters Club got a graphic novel makeover (it, too, kicked off with Kristy's Big Idea). By the series' original end in 2000, 176 million copies of Baby-sitters Club books had been sold-which, if stacked on top of each other, would be as tall as 77,203 Empire State Buildings. Before long, the books were hitting bestsellers lists and what started as a four-part miniseries would eventually grow to more than 200 books. In 1986, Scholastic published the first The Baby-sitters Club book, Kristy’s Big Idea.
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