The Baby-Sitters Club: Chapter Books vs. Comics

The Baby-Sitters Club, written by Ann M. Martin, is a series of novels about a group of friends aged 12, Kristy Thomas (founder and president), Mary Anne Spier (secretary), Claudia Kishi (vice-president), and Stacey McGill (treasurer), who run a local babysitting service called "The Baby-Sitters Club".  The novels were originally published by Scholastic between 1986 and 2000.

Some of the novels have been released as graphic novel versions written by Raina Telgemeier (who also wrote Smile, Sisters and Guts) and Gale Galligan.

By Raina Telgemeier:

• The Baby-sitters Club [1] : Kristy's great idea.
• The Baby-sitters Club [2] : the truth about Stacey.
• The Baby-sitters Club [3] : Mary Anne saves the day : a graphic novel. (ebook)
• The Baby-sitters Club [4] : Claudia and mean Janine.

By Gale Galligan:

• The Baby-sitters Club [5] : Dawn and the impossible three : a graphic novel.
• The Baby-sitters Club [6] : Kristy's big day. (ebook)
• The Baby-sitters Club [7] : Boy-crazy Stacey.
• The Baby-sitters Club [8] : Logan likes Mary Anne! : a graphic novel.

There was also a spin-off series called Baby-Sitters Little Sister novels, about Karen Brewer, the seven-year-old stepsister of Kristy Thomas. The series ran from 1988 to 2000. The first two novels, Karen's Witch and Karen's Rollerskates, have been released as graphic novels written by Katy Farina.

• Karen's Witch.
• Karen's Rollerskates.

Did you know? The Babysitters Club was made into a movie in 1995 and was recently made into a TV series on Netflix.

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