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Kristy's Big Day (The Baby-Sitters Club #6)
Kristy's mom is getting married, and Kristy's a bridesmaid. The only trouble is, fourteen little kids are coming to the wedding, and they all need a baby-sitter. Here comes the Baby-sitters Club!
Stacey, Claudia, Mary Anne, Dawn and Kristy think they can handle fourteen little kids. But that's before they spend five days changing diapers, stopping fights, solving mix-ups, r...more
Stacey, Claudia, Mary Anne, Dawn and Kristy think they can handle fourteen little kids. But that's before they spend five days changing diapers, stopping fights, solving mix-ups, r...more
Paperback, 153 pages
Published
December 1st 1988
by Scholastic
(first published June 1987)
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dear god, i was OBSESSED with this book when i was a kid. it's all because of the babysitters taking care of fourteen kids for a week. i was really into how they split the kids up by age, & made little color-coded shaped name tags, & each group had age-appropriate activities...everything that appealed to me about this book was what appealed to me about the american girl catalogue. i like things that are organized & logical & collection-oriented. it's hard to explain.
of course, t...more
of course, t...more
Apr 07, 2013
Laura Hughes
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In the final week before her mother’s wedding wedding, Kristy and the rest of the club hold a 9-to-5 day care for the children of her visiting relatives. Kristy deals with lingering misgivings about her impending life changes, and serves as a bridesmaid in the wedding.
The five-day day care takes up most of the book, and provides an interesting and unusual structure with plenty of baby-sitting content and organizational planning (I love organizational planning!)
Lingering Question: The week of rel...more
The five-day day care takes up most of the book, and provides an interesting and unusual structure with plenty of baby-sitting content and organizational planning (I love organizational planning!)
Lingering Question: The week of rel...more
Well, there was a lot of contrived stuff in this one . . . what I LIKED was the cool system the babysitters who had to watch fourteen kids for a week figured out to keep the kids busy, fed, and happy, but I didn't like how ridiculous the concept was to force a wedding and a messy relocation into the plot. (I'm not saying it couldn't have been justified; I'm saying it wasn't.) The babysitters had to shift their understanding of babysitting to care for so many kids--like being camp counselors inst...more
This one is so utterly ridiculous, it's good. Basically, Kristy's mum & Watson Brewer decide to get married, and give themselves a week to plan and hold the wedding, because Kristy's house has been sold and they need to move out in a week, and let's face it, adults simply can NOT live together before they're married. Also, getting married at a registry office and then holding a reception a few months later is not a feasible option.
So, yeah. This book is ridiculous, but fabulous. The BSC ear...more
So, yeah. This book is ridiculous, but fabulous. The BSC ear...more
Fantastic books for young girls getting into reading!! Great stories about friendship and life lessons. The characters deal with all sorts of situations and often find responsible solutions to problems.
I loved this series growing up and wanted to start my own babysitting business with friends. Great lessons in entrepreneurship for tweens.
The books may be dated with out references to modern technology but the story stands and lessons are still relevant.
Awesome books that girls will love! And the...more
I loved this series growing up and wanted to start my own babysitting business with friends. Great lessons in entrepreneurship for tweens.
The books may be dated with out references to modern technology but the story stands and lessons are still relevant.
Awesome books that girls will love! And the...more
Oh, Baby-Sitter's Club. Kristy's Big Day is the sixth BSC book in which Kristy's mom marries Watson. I hadn't realized that this happened so early in the series. Kristy isn't my favorite of the girls, I was always such a girly-girl that her tomboyishness bugged me when I was young. However, Kristy was rather girly in this one, getting excited about being a bridesmaid and wearing heels for the first time. In fact, she didn't really seem Kristy-like in this one.
I reread this book just now while babysitting, at least 20 years since I first read it as a kid. I was obsessed with The Babysitters Club books when I was young and the countless books in the series (along with The Boxcar Children) were probably my first chapter books that spurred on my love of reading. It was surprisingly how much I remembered about each character in the hour or so it took to reread it now, haha. Blast from the past!
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Nov 14, 2012
Delicious Strawberry
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Kristy has been living in a single-parent household for a long time since dear old Dad abandoned the family, and Kristin had a hard time getting used to her mom dating. This book is part about how Kristin deals with the changes in her life, but she sees that some changes can be very positive, especially given that her stepfather-to-be is actually a nice guy who treats her mom well.
Aw so nice. I loved how they had to take care of 14 kids for a week and got them all organised with colour tags and groups and had all the information about them and organised all sorts of activities. The plot with Kristy getting ready for her mother and Watson's wedding was really well-handled too I thought. The thirteen-year-old in me wishes she were part of that group.
5th grade, I was a total BabySitters Club addict. I think I read them until I was in 9th grade or something embarrassing. Anyway, THIS particular one was one of my absolute favorites, and I read it a bazillion times. It's the one where Kristy's mom marries Watson, or whatever the hell his name is. See the beatuiful yellow dress?!?!? And the babysitters had all the kids over at once and had to do games and stuff with them. It was like the girls were running their own day camp! One time I took thi...more
my name is kayla and i'm 8…this is the first baby sitters club book i've read!!!!!!!I absolutely love the book. I love the book because kristy and the baby sitters club will get $200 each for baby sitting 14 kids.Check that book on my list!!!!√√√√√√√
Alright, I have loooove these books when I was younger, so that's why I decided to buy the 6 first books of the series. I understand why I love them when I was younger, now they are a little childish to me (and here is speaking the girl who loves to read children's books). Maybe because the baby-sitters are too immature for my taste (as they should be, I mean, they are just 12-years-old!), but I can't help thinking, when I read Kristry's PoV, that she is too annoying, from Mary Anne's PoV, that...more
Jul 03, 2012
Kimberly
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I loved the BSC series when I was younger and even more glad that I held on to them all these years so my children would be able to enjoy them as well. I would recommend for tween girls.
Jul 01, 2012
Audra
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I enjoyed this one in the series. I really like the Kristy books, I guess! They tend to be even more fast paced. It was fun to see the girls try something new -- fourteen kids, gee whiz! :)
So I was hanging out at my favorite coffee shop yesterday while Dan was getting a haircut. There was a delay at the barber shop and I finished the book I brought with me and needed something new to read. Someone had left a copy of this Babysitters Club book and I thought, what the heck, it's been 15 years since I've read one of these - I'll give it a shot.
I was pleasantly surprised. I thought it would be like watching clips from one of your favorite childhood cartoons on YouTube, when you realiz...more
I was pleasantly surprised. I thought it would be like watching clips from one of your favorite childhood cartoons on YouTube, when you realiz...more
I remember loving this as a kid. Now not so much. Kristy and the bsc have to babysit for 14 kids before her moms impromptu wedding. This is a short book that is a landmark in the series.
This one of my favourite books.I would love to go to a wedding like Kristy did and I'm sure it would have been a hard time taking care of 14 kids!
Mar 14, 2012
Jess (Shepherdjel)
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What a flash back :-) I definitely realized why i loved them so much as a kid, it was a big change from what i am used to reading though! So fun!
I loved the cross-over between Kristy's stories and the Baby-Sitter's Little Sister series. Series cross-overs still excite me to this day. :)
Karen always makes me chuckle with her imagination and Kristy finally realises that Watson is not so bad after all.
My very first one. I won it in my third grade class (not sure what for - reading?), loved it, went back and started at #1, and the rest is history! : )
I've read some of the books in the series. I love them
I love how Kristy finally accepted Watson in to her family.
Dubious set-up aside, however, this book still holds up pretty well. The focus is mainly on the challenge of babysitting a large group all at once, and my enjoyment of the book during this reading, and in the past, came from that plot, not from the surrounding wedding details. The mock wedding at the end of the book is ten times more interesting than Watson marrying Kristy's mom, and that's what I choose to remember.
Read my full review on my blog: http://sharingsoda.blogspot.com/2011/...
Read my full review on my blog: http://sharingsoda.blogspot.com/2011/...
Oh, how I loved these books when I was a kid.
Reread for #BSC #bookaday
As I've been rereading the BSC books, it has been a quite different experience as an adult vs. when I was a kid. I'm noticing things I never noticed as a middle schooler (book shout outs, grammar mentions, etc.), but this is the first one where I really felt like a teacher reading it. I remember reading this book and being completely flabbergasted at the idea of watching SO many kids all at once. The SO many ended up being 14. I now make a living where I am in control of...more
As I've been rereading the BSC books, it has been a quite different experience as an adult vs. when I was a kid. I'm noticing things I never noticed as a middle schooler (book shout outs, grammar mentions, etc.), but this is the first one where I really felt like a teacher reading it. I remember reading this book and being completely flabbergasted at the idea of watching SO many kids all at once. The SO many ended up being 14. I now make a living where I am in control of...more
This reminds me of my childhood.
Kristy was my second favorite.
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Ann Matthews Martin was born on August 12, 1955. She grew up in Princeton, New Jersey, with her parents and her younger sister, Jane. After graduating from Smith College, Ann became a teacher and then an editor of children's books. She's now a full-time writer.
Ann gets the ideas for her books from many different places. Some are based on personal experiences, while others are based on childhood me...more
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