Kristy may have had the “Great Idea,” but she was kind of bossy, right? And Stacey was all “sophisticated,” but sometimes her popularity was scary, like she was going to abandon the club again for her cool friends in New York, which Mary Anne or Mallory — say what you will about them — never, ever would have done.
We are speaking, of course, of “The Baby-Sitters Club,” the 132-book mondo series chronicling the adventures of seven industrious friends who ran a babysitting business in somnolent Stoneybrook, Conn. The BSC eventually spiraled into seven spinoff series, a feature film, a graphic novel, an HBO series — altogether more than 300 titles selling 176 million copies from 1986 to 2000 when, after 14 years in middle school, the members of the club finally graduated from eighth grade.
