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BSC Link Roundup

greer  in the internet

Everyone knows about the sites I have linked on the right side–BSC Headquarters, BSC Companion–all standard BSC links. But what about the other interesting BSC stuff out there on the internet?

The Miss BSC Pageant is a BSC popularity contest. Right now the voting is limited to determining which BSC books are the most popular, although the profile pages hints on plans for expansion. Bonus: can be helpful when trying to decide which book to read next, if you are one of those unfortunate souls who has yet to read the entire series. Now there is a user-determined rating system for the series. I would like to see the results from this site posted in a public website, as I think it has the potential to be a valuable resource.

If perhaps one day you are bedridden, really bored, waiting in line at the DMV, or simply must obsessively read about the girls, Television Without Pity has a 236-page thread that might help you out.

We’re like the Baby-Sitters Club, except high. Yes, that’s the whole video… but doesn’t it give you inspiration for fanfiction?

Here is a site that will help you update your wardrobe with Claudia Kishi as inspiration.

Thanks to the New York Times making their archive free online, we can articles like:

  • this one about the development of the TV series
  • the review of the film
  • a review on a book about teaching your kids manners that Ann wrote in 1990
  • serious reporting from 1991 on girls who were inspired to create their versions of the BSC
  • an article on the series from 1989


    SORRY GUYS but the links don’t work because they are just my queries and have expired and the NY Times’s website’s javascript for sharing is not working with my firefox and firefox is my only browser. But you can go and search the archives yourself and find the gems I linked to, which are titled:

  • HBO Turns ‘Baby-Sitters Club’ Into a Series of Specials
  • The Sturm und Drang of Girls Who Baby-Sit
  • Why Can You Behave? A Guide to Books on Manners
  • Like, What an Idea! Baby-Sitters’ Clubs!
  • Inside the Baby-Sitters Club


    The NYT cannot make up its mind and now all the links work.

    Best quote, from the last article: “For instance, Ms. Martin had suggested that it might be interesting if Stacey’s parents were in jail for embezzlement, but Ms. Feiwel felt that it would not be all that appropriate. So she got the adults out of prison and made Stacey a diabetic.”

    Happy reading!

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    myu said, October 6th, 2007 at 3:39 pm

    “Ann M. Martin, a slight, blond-haired 33-year-old who lives in Manhattan with a cat named Mouse, writes the series.”

    Is it wrong that I found this quite sad, yet rather humorous? I also think the original plan for Stacey is great.

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    chicken_queen said, October 6th, 2007 at 4:36 pm

    Those links work for me.

    ”I would never tire of them,” said Nicole Zajack. ”Never. Never. Never.”

    I wonder if Nicole is still a fan to this day ..

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    wanderingfrog said, October 7th, 2007 at 1:28 pm

    That embezzlement thing was awesome. I think they should have had Mr. McGill in jail for embezzlement, because he sucks anyway, and just had Stacey and Mrs. McGill move to Stoneybrook. That could’ve worked.

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