Title: The Baby-Sitters Club : The Truth about Stacey
Author: Ann M. Martin
Illustrator: Raina Telegemeier
Publisher: Scholastic, Graphix
Date: 2006
Age Range: 3 grade and up
Summary: Poor Stacey. She's moved to a new town. She's still coming to terms with her diabetes. She's facing baby-sitting problems left and right. And her parents are no help. Luckily, Stacey has three new, true friends -- Kristy, Claudia, and Mary Anne. Together they're the BSC -- and they will deal with whatever's thrown their way... even if it's a rival baby-sitting club!
Strengths:
I think this is a great revival of the old babysitters club. These are the original books put to comic format (unlike those trashy Nancy Drew comics - I have a bone to pick about those) and they are true to the original books. The characters look the way I always thought they did and the art is nice and clean with no screen tones. This is a good way to get reluctant readers to start reading because once they start liking the comic format they might want to read the other books in the text format. The story is very realistic and kids can identify with it.
Concerns:
Nothing. Its a nice and simple story that children can read easily and enjoy. :D
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