03 October 2011

Say hello to your friends--babysitters club



Childhood nostalgia on a shelf

..:::SIGH:::..


I miss this absurd, under-qualified, well-dressed, motley crew of ladies. These books made me feel grown up when I read them in 3rd grade, and I retained way to much information from them. Literally couldn’t tell you anything about the classes I took in college, but I could tell you the Rodowsky boys’ names. Archie, Jackie (wALKiNg DiSaStEr, ammiright?), and Shea. 




Ah the Babysitters Club the movie was a fave of mine too! Rachel Leigh Cook played Mary Anne and The girl from the TV Show Alex Mac or the girl that played Bianca in Ten Things I hate about you played Dawn in the movie. The boy in the back with the light hair was on that show called Promise Land.

Man where have all the classics (for TV) gone?




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41 comments:

  1. This brought a smile to my face today. I was SUCH a huge fan of these books! I was like obsessed. Every time we would go to the mall, my parents would buy me a new book. I would literally not put it down until I was finished reading it. Part of me wants to go find all of these books so I can re-read them. :)

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  2. I have seen that babysitter club movie like 1300 times... seriously.

    I read a bunch of those books too. How do they not have "CLASSIC" stamped on the front of them in big, bold letters?! I mean come on

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  3. HAHAHA this post made me laugh out loud. I used to LOVE the Babysitters Club.

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  4. I was just talking about this Saturday with Dustin when we found some Babysitters Club books at antique shop.

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  5. Oh yes, the Babysitters Club. They sure don't write books like that anymore. Nice post! :)

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  6. Hey girl! I am on twitter... MsEmmyC

    What's your twitter? ...Thanks for watching the game last night! It was super exciting!

    I have been such a bad blogger lately. I don't know where time goes, but it just seems to fly by lately. So, I am sure this is way late, but I love your layout!! And I definitely loved Babysitters club books...never saw the move though!

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  7. Oh, how I miss these girls! I watched The Babysitters Club movie so many times that the actual tape came out of the VHS casing! That means it's a goody. Xo!

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  8. This post brings back some great memories! Love it! I must have watched the movie 20 times, no exaggerating there haha. Oh how I miss those days. Thanks for the smile :)

    -Holly @ Eight Six Eleven

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  9. i loved the babysitters club movie! omg! my favorite series was r.l. stein's fear street. oh things were a lot simpler back then...sigh

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  10. I literally just started humming the song from the movie! I'm a new follower, over from Kristen's blog...here's mine: www.deeretomyheart.blogspot.com
    Cute blog! Love the pup :)

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  11. i LOVED those books, and the movie, too--cannot lie! i bet the author once when i won a radio station contese and thought i was the coolest kid in town--HAHA!

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  12. Oh em gee I LOVED the Babysitter's Club books and I remember being so excited when the movie was released.

    So glad you shared this post :)

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  13. Get out of town! I can't believe you posted this because I was JUST thinking about how obsessed I was with the TV show/movies/books and I admit, I was even singing the theme song in my head. Oh, those were the good ole days!

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  14. Oh my word. I was OBSESSED with the Baby Sitter's Club! Read every book and loved the movie! Too funny!

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  15. This made my day..thanks for posting :)

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  16. Ahh yes! I dug out some Babysitter's Club books from my parents house recently! Also some Goosebumps books. I fully intend on reading them again.

    And I may or may not have had the movie on our Netflix ...

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  17. I love reading it too! :) I never saw the movie because it was not shown in my country :(

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  18. Kids have NO idea what they are missing these days.

    Hannah Montana? Please. She aint got NOTHING on Babysitters club, Full house and Family Matters.

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  19. Omg i was so obsessed with the movies/books! This brings back so many memories

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  20. I LOVED these books and spent many a night with a flashlight reading in bed well past my bedtime! My daughter has now confiscated my collection from my parents house and we have just begun reading them together ~ Almost finished with book 1. Kristy's big idea :) Its so fun reading them with her ~ kind of like being transported back in time.

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  21. I'm right there with you. I can open one up now (I teach elementary school) ... and read one chapter, and I swear it's like I'm transported back to my own 3rd grade days ... I can imagine my classmates, riding the bus, things I did on the weekends at that age ... it's like a time machine. Good stuff! What will today's third grade girls remember, I shudder to think ... ?

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  22. oh goodness, i get this way about sweet valley high! apparently they're bringing back the books and the tv show and my 4th grade self is beyond thrilled :)

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  23. love, love, LOVE!!! I read all the books, watched the movies and obsessed over BSC! I was part of a book club that got 3 of the books a month and sobbed when I officially had all the books. I can't believe you posted this because one of my students was reading one of them last week and I got really excited that kids still read them!

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  24. Love rediscovering stuff from childhood that you loved, completely brings it all back to you!
    Loved reading these!

    Abigail x

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  25. I LOVED these books! Did you read Sweet Valley High, too?! haha, oh the good ol' days :)

    I love your reference of Alex Mac - totally forgot about that show!

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  26. I loved Babysitter's Club!

    One of my students had one of the books the other day. I was so surprised to see it!

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  27. Girl, my best friend and I are in your boat! We used to read these books like maniacs and eventually tried to start our own babysitters club. It didn't work, but oh was it fun. *sigh* Those were the days...

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  28. I use to love that show! I especially loved the books. I read every single one in the series. So good :)

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  29. best.post.ever - i LOVED the babysitters club. we're talking stonybrook board game and 5 inch thick trivia book. it was my goal in life to be like claudia. i used to "hide" candy in my bedroom even though my mom knew it was there - and didnt care. ha!

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  30. LOVED these books and especially the movie!

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  31. Awwwwwwww! I have all the books and the movie too! My mom recently gave me boxes of my old stuff and it brought back some good memories! I remember being obsessed with the names and the way they wrote their names lol. Strange, I know! :)

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  32. Ohmygosh I didnt even realize that was Rachel Leigh Cook ,but you're so right! Crazy!! I was more into Sweet Valley High, but I definitely loved me some Babysitters Club, too. :)

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  33. OMG, I LOVED the BSC, Baby-Sitters Little sister books and Sweet Valley. I know this sounds silly but I would LOVE to re read all my childhood faves like these and you now gave me the urge to find the BSC movie on youtube.

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  34. You took me back to the good days! I loved the BSC books! I don't think I ever saw the movie, but love how you recognized 'Alex Mac'! Can we go back to elementary school please?!

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  35. Ah, this makes me want to go home and watch the BSC movie right now!!

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  36. Oh my gosh! I LOVED the Baby-Sitters Club books :) I think I owned almost every one! I had the movie too and just loved it!

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  37. LOVED this post! I visited two of my friends in Connecticut recently and we were talking about the BSC books. I burst out into the theme song from the show "You can always count on me...and I can count on you!" I also pulled up this exact youtube clip, haha :) My favs were the super-series and the mysteries :)

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  38. I was OBSESSED with the baby sitters club. seriously, I can honestly remember every book. I wanted to be Claudia. omg this brings me back.

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  39. This made me smile! The Baby Sitters Club was and is still a favorite movie of mine! I found my VHS copy of it just the other day and it is worn out! I have to get it on DVD!

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  40. I had the theme song in my head alll morning yesterday!!! HA!
    Best throwback.

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