Karen's Christmas Carol

Baby-Sitters Little Sister #104

by Ann M. Martin, Susan Tang (Illustrator)

From the bestselling author of the generation-defining series The Baby-sitters Club comes a series for a new generation!

A very merry Christmas?Karen and Andrew are in A Christmas Carol. Karen’s part is small. But Andrew’s part is very big. At first Karen is proud of him, but then her feelings change. Soon Karen is jealous. And it is hard for her to be nice to Andrew. How will Karen get her Christmas spirit back?

Genres: Christmas, Middle Grade, Childrens, Juvenile

73 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 1, 1998

About the author

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 memories and feelings. Many are written about contemporary problems or events. All of Ann's characters, even the members of the Baby-sitters Club, are made up. But many of her characters are based on real people. Sometimes Ann names her characters after people she knows, and other times she simply chooses names that she likes.

Ann has always enjoyed writing. Even before she was old enough to write, she would dictate stories to her mother to write down for her. Some of her favorite authors at that time were Lewis Carroll, P. L. Travers, Hugh Lofting, Astrid Lindgren, and Roald Dahl. They inspired her to become a writer herself.

Since ending the BSC series in 2000, Ann’s writing has concentrated on single novels, many of which are set in the 1960s.

After living in New York City for many years, Ann moved to the Hudson Valley in upstate New York where she now lives with her dog, Sadie, and her cats, Gussie, Willy and Woody. Her hobbies are reading, sewing, and needlework. Her favorite thing to do is to make clothes for children.

http://us.macmillan.com/author/annmma...

Reviews

[Josephine]

❤

[Jaclyn]

Andrew is really sweet and Karen learns a valuable lesson. The big aha moment and behaviour shift was somewhat abrupt, and how the author shows what moves Karen to change is a bit pedantic/obvious (like Karen goes through the dress rehearsal of a Christmas Carol and literally picks up the relevant lessons along the way). But it's still a nice Christmas message, and Andrew is such a sweetheart, and the ending was heartwarming.

[Looney]

2.5/5

[Em's Adventures]

The ending made me tear up a little.

[Courtney]

I am rereading these (I loved them as a kid) and this one was really cute.