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oursuburbanfarm's review against another edition
5.0
I remember loving this book SO much as a kid. I was beyond excited that Logan liked Mary Anne and I just knew that if Mary Anne had a chance, so did I!
sarahblessing's review against another edition
3.0
I like that the way they write out Logan’s accent makes him sound like Foghorn Leghorn.
laurammate's review against another edition
5.0
Un dulce regreso a mi primer amor.
Como dije en mi anterior reseña, no conocía esta saga hasta hace poquito, que vi la adaptación de Netflix. La vimos con mi hermana pequeña, que tiene la edad perfecta para disfrutarla y sentirse identificada, y la verdad es que a mí también me encantó. Cuando supe que es una adaptación de una saga de libros, los busqué ¡y resultaba que mi madre tenía uno de cuando ella era pequeña! Su edición era la versión en catalán (aunque aquí no he encontrado ni la catalana ni la española) En Logan i la Mary Anne s'agraden.
La saga trata de un grupo de amigas de entre 12 y 13 años que deciden montar un negocio como canguros de los niños de su barrio. Y aunque esa es la temática general que une todos los libros, realmente son libros de «aventuras cotidianas» donde las movidas familiares, del colegio, primeros romances, piques y reconciliaciones entre las amigas son la verdadera chicha de las novelas.
Esta, en particular, la narra Mary Anne. Es una niña muy, muy, muy tímida e introvertida, cuya madre falleció cuando ella era muy pequeña y su padre es demasiado sobreprotector con ella. La trama gira en torno a su primer romance con un chico muy guapo: ella no entiende por qué él se fija en una chica callada como ella, pero eso va a ayudarla a sacar fuerzas de su corazón para poder hacer frente a sus miedos e inseguridades.
El libro me ha parecido súper tierno. Me ha devuelto a mis tiernos doce o trece años, cuando tenía mis primeros crushes y temblaba ante la mirada de la persona que me gustaba. Me ha dejado un sabor muy dulce de boca al ir leyéndolo. Además, como persona increíblemente tímida e introvertida, me he sentido identificada en algunas acciones o pensamientos de Mary Anne (aunque había otros que encontraba muy infantiles para la edad que se supone que tiene, incluso). También el chico es muy tierno y dulce y puedes entender perfectamente por qué Mary Anne acaba tan colada por él, porque me habría pasado lo mismo de estar en su posición.
Lo recomiendo mucho porque te devolverá a las épocas más tiernas de tu vida. Y si tienes esas edades, te puedes sentir bastante reflejada. Aunque, como digo, hay comportamientos de Mary Anne que están fuera de lugar, muy infantiles o que te sacan completamente de la lectura porque no te puedes reflejar en ningún caso.
También hay situaciones que ahora en 2020 son impensables. Hay todo un drama que gira en torno a que se juntan cinco niñas y un niño: las niñas quieren marujear sobre celebridades y que si una se ha comprado un sujetador nuevo, que si otra se ha besuqueado con nosequién. Pues todo ese drama va de que el chico se siente terriblemente incómodo porque las niñas quieren hablar de sujetadores. Y ellas no quieren hablarlo porque hay un niño delante. Es un drama que ahora, hoy en día, ya pocos niños se sienten identificados porque estamos acostumbradísimos a hablar sobre esas cosas sin pudores. Pero bueno, se entiende que el libro tiene ya unas cuantas décadas.
Aparte de esas cosillas, el libro lo recomiendo 10/10. Te transportará a una época muy tierna y vivirás un romance muy tierno, dulce y entrañable.
Como dije en mi anterior reseña, no conocía esta saga hasta hace poquito, que vi la adaptación de Netflix. La vimos con mi hermana pequeña, que tiene la edad perfecta para disfrutarla y sentirse identificada, y la verdad es que a mí también me encantó. Cuando supe que es una adaptación de una saga de libros, los busqué ¡y resultaba que mi madre tenía uno de cuando ella era pequeña! Su edición era la versión en catalán (aunque aquí no he encontrado ni la catalana ni la española) En Logan i la Mary Anne s'agraden.
La saga trata de un grupo de amigas de entre 12 y 13 años que deciden montar un negocio como canguros de los niños de su barrio. Y aunque esa es la temática general que une todos los libros, realmente son libros de «aventuras cotidianas» donde las movidas familiares, del colegio, primeros romances, piques y reconciliaciones entre las amigas son la verdadera chicha de las novelas.
Esta, en particular, la narra Mary Anne. Es una niña muy, muy, muy tímida e introvertida, cuya madre falleció cuando ella era muy pequeña y su padre es demasiado sobreprotector con ella. La trama gira en torno a su primer romance con un chico muy guapo: ella no entiende por qué él se fija en una chica callada como ella, pero eso va a ayudarla a sacar fuerzas de su corazón para poder hacer frente a sus miedos e inseguridades.
El libro me ha parecido súper tierno. Me ha devuelto a mis tiernos doce o trece años, cuando tenía mis primeros crushes y temblaba ante la mirada de la persona que me gustaba. Me ha dejado un sabor muy dulce de boca al ir leyéndolo. Además, como persona increíblemente tímida e introvertida, me he sentido identificada en algunas acciones o pensamientos de Mary Anne (aunque había otros que encontraba muy infantiles para la edad que se supone que tiene, incluso). También el chico es muy tierno y dulce y puedes entender perfectamente por qué Mary Anne acaba tan colada por él, porque me habría pasado lo mismo de estar en su posición.
Lo recomiendo mucho porque te devolverá a las épocas más tiernas de tu vida. Y si tienes esas edades, te puedes sentir bastante reflejada. Aunque, como digo, hay comportamientos de Mary Anne que están fuera de lugar, muy infantiles o que te sacan completamente de la lectura porque no te puedes reflejar en ningún caso.
También hay situaciones que ahora en 2020 son impensables. Hay todo un drama que gira en torno a que se juntan cinco niñas y un niño: las niñas quieren marujear sobre celebridades y que si una se ha comprado un sujetador nuevo, que si otra se ha besuqueado con nosequién. Pues todo ese drama va de que el chico se siente terriblemente incómodo porque las niñas quieren hablar de sujetadores. Y ellas no quieren hablarlo porque hay un niño delante. Es un drama que ahora, hoy en día, ya pocos niños se sienten identificados porque estamos acostumbradísimos a hablar sobre esas cosas sin pudores. Pero bueno, se entiende que el libro tiene ya unas cuantas décadas.
Aparte de esas cosillas, el libro lo recomiendo 10/10. Te transportará a una época muy tierna y vivirás un romance muy tierno, dulce y entrañable.
ssshira's review against another edition
5.0
this is another favorite of mine, so this one might also be really long. mary anne is already getting a little less shy and opening up to the prospect of boy-liking. when logan bruno, a kid who looks just like movie star cam geary, moves to town, mary anne is in LUV. even better, she discovers logan is into baby-sitting and may want to join the baby-sitters club. but can the baby-sitters hang with a boy when that limits their ability to talk about bra straps? and can mary anne get over her shy kid syndrome enough to date logan/function in the world?
highlights:
-introduction to baby-sitting jackie rodowsky
-at the rodowsky's logan notes a painting on the wall with a house (red square and black triangle on top), green line for grass, blue line for sky, yellow sun in the corner. logan says they have a painting just like that at his house but it says logan on it instead of jackie and he thought it was an original. what a charming goofball!
-claudia, in a profound moment, says that it must be hard to be a parent when gabbie perkins puts stickers all over her door, knowing that gabbie had good intentions (to make her door beautiful) but that the stickers would take a lot of work to scrape off.
-mary anne kicks her shoe off at the dance and almost hits mr. kingbridge, the vice principal (when copying logan's goofy dancing and doing rockette-style leg kicks). what a perfect embarrassing moment for a tweenager!
-mary anne also is mortified by the surprise birthday cake at a non-surprise party for her, and she runs home without a word to anyone. it is kind of incredible and really just a great teen magazine embarrassing story situation.
-richard spier makes mary anne get a cat from a shelter. he says "give a home to a pet that really needs one." nicely done, ann, putting a subtle message in here and training kids for proper pet adoption in the future.
-introduction of the position associate member, for logan bruno.
-mary anne adopts tigger! she's always wanted a gray tiger cat and always wanted to name it tigger.
low?lights/nitpicks:
-typically when ann writes about celebrities and their tv shows/movies, she makes them up (except the movie meatballs). I don't think she realized that out of this world was an actual show that had just started airing shortly before this book came out. the reason I don't think she knew is because claudia mentions having a crush on max morrison, who is from that show, but nobody by that name was actually on the show. I always noticed this because I loved out of this world when I was growing up, for which the theme song was an updated version of "swingin on a star" by bing crosby.
-stacey says she didn't know that cam geary goes out with corrie lalique (another actor), but they talked about it in the previous book, [b:The Ghost at Dawn's House|371125|The Ghost at Dawn's House (The Baby-Sitters Club, #9)|Ann M. Martin|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1174229926s/371125.jpg|361092] (when suggesting that they make mary anne up to look like corrie lalique).
claudia outfit (at the remember september dance):
-"Claudia was wearing short, tight-fitting black pants and a big white shirt that said BE-BOP all over it in between pictures of rock and roll dancers. She had fixed a floppy blue bow in her hair."
other outfits:
-mary anne (remember september dance): "Claudia handed me a full white skirt with the words Paris, Rome, and London, and sketchy pink and blue pictures of the Eiffel Tower, the Tower Bridge, and other stuff scrawled all over it. She matched it up with a pink shirt and a baggy pink sweater...In the shoe department we found white slip-ons with pink and blue edging that matched the pink and blue in the skirt."
-dawn: "She was wearing a pretty snappy outfit -- hot-pink shorts with a big, breezy island-print shirt over a white tank top.
jackie rodowsky's walking disaster moments:
-almost crashes into the piano while jumping off the couch
-falls in the bathroom when chinning on the curtain rod
-spills grape juice in the living room
-gets his hand stuck in a jar
-falls off his bicycle
-rips his jeans
-knocks mary anne into logan's arms
-falls out of a tree
-falls down the front steps
-falls off the bed
this is the first book where kristy eats the school lunch and describes it in disgusting ways, such as:
-"it tastes like a dirty sock that's been left out in the rain and then hidden in a dark closet for three weeks."
-"smells like steamed rubber in turtle wax."
items in stacey's kid kit:
-[b:Paddington Takes the Air|952562|Paddington Takes the Air (Paddington, #9)|Michael Bond|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1347545753s/952562.jpg|937473]
-[b:Tik-Tok of Oz|548260|Tik-Tok of Oz (Oz, #8)|L. Frank Baum|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1277949568s/548260.jpg|3177899]
-coloring book
-connect-the-dots book
-crayons
-magic markers
-drawing paper
-candyland
-spill and spell
-barbie doll
-[b:Happy Birthday to You!|7775|Happy Birthday to You!|Dr. Seuss|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1388183621s/7775.jpg|10825]
snacks in claudia's room:
-gumdrops in her pillowcase
-pretzels in her pillowcase
-doritos (not specified)
highlights:
-introduction to baby-sitting jackie rodowsky
-at the rodowsky's logan notes a painting on the wall with a house (red square and black triangle on top), green line for grass, blue line for sky, yellow sun in the corner. logan says they have a painting just like that at his house but it says logan on it instead of jackie and he thought it was an original. what a charming goofball!
-claudia, in a profound moment, says that it must be hard to be a parent when gabbie perkins puts stickers all over her door, knowing that gabbie had good intentions (to make her door beautiful) but that the stickers would take a lot of work to scrape off.
-mary anne kicks her shoe off at the dance and almost hits mr. kingbridge, the vice principal (when copying logan's goofy dancing and doing rockette-style leg kicks). what a perfect embarrassing moment for a tweenager!
-mary anne also is mortified by the surprise birthday cake at a non-surprise party for her, and she runs home without a word to anyone. it is kind of incredible and really just a great teen magazine embarrassing story situation.
-richard spier makes mary anne get a cat from a shelter. he says "give a home to a pet that really needs one." nicely done, ann, putting a subtle message in here and training kids for proper pet adoption in the future.
-introduction of the position associate member, for logan bruno.
-mary anne adopts tigger! she's always wanted a gray tiger cat and always wanted to name it tigger.
low?lights/nitpicks:
-typically when ann writes about celebrities and their tv shows/movies, she makes them up (except the movie meatballs). I don't think she realized that out of this world was an actual show that had just started airing shortly before this book came out. the reason I don't think she knew is because claudia mentions having a crush on max morrison, who is from that show, but nobody by that name was actually on the show. I always noticed this because I loved out of this world when I was growing up, for which the theme song was an updated version of "swingin on a star" by bing crosby.
-stacey says she didn't know that cam geary goes out with corrie lalique (another actor), but they talked about it in the previous book, [b:The Ghost at Dawn's House|371125|The Ghost at Dawn's House (The Baby-Sitters Club, #9)|Ann M. Martin|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1174229926s/371125.jpg|361092] (when suggesting that they make mary anne up to look like corrie lalique).
claudia outfit (at the remember september dance):
-"Claudia was wearing short, tight-fitting black pants and a big white shirt that said BE-BOP all over it in between pictures of rock and roll dancers. She had fixed a floppy blue bow in her hair."
other outfits:
-mary anne (remember september dance): "Claudia handed me a full white skirt with the words Paris, Rome, and London, and sketchy pink and blue pictures of the Eiffel Tower, the Tower Bridge, and other stuff scrawled all over it. She matched it up with a pink shirt and a baggy pink sweater...In the shoe department we found white slip-ons with pink and blue edging that matched the pink and blue in the skirt."
-dawn: "She was wearing a pretty snappy outfit -- hot-pink shorts with a big, breezy island-print shirt over a white tank top.
jackie rodowsky's walking disaster moments:
-almost crashes into the piano while jumping off the couch
-falls in the bathroom when chinning on the curtain rod
-spills grape juice in the living room
-gets his hand stuck in a jar
-falls off his bicycle
-rips his jeans
-knocks mary anne into logan's arms
-falls out of a tree
-falls down the front steps
-falls off the bed
this is the first book where kristy eats the school lunch and describes it in disgusting ways, such as:
-"it tastes like a dirty sock that's been left out in the rain and then hidden in a dark closet for three weeks."
-"smells like steamed rubber in turtle wax."
items in stacey's kid kit:
-[b:Paddington Takes the Air|952562|Paddington Takes the Air (Paddington, #9)|Michael Bond|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1347545753s/952562.jpg|937473]
-[b:Tik-Tok of Oz|548260|Tik-Tok of Oz (Oz, #8)|L. Frank Baum|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1277949568s/548260.jpg|3177899]
-coloring book
-connect-the-dots book
-crayons
-magic markers
-drawing paper
-candyland
-spill and spell
-barbie doll
-[b:Happy Birthday to You!|7775|Happy Birthday to You!|Dr. Seuss|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1388183621s/7775.jpg|10825]
snacks in claudia's room:
-gumdrops in her pillowcase
-pretzels in her pillowcase
-doritos (not specified)
cslats33's review against another edition
4.0
This was one of my favorites. I like that they’re getting older.
ella_smith_'s review against another edition
4.0
I read this today and OMG the memories flooded back to me. The Baby sitters clubs makes me feel so nostalgic. I went as Mary Anne for book week in Year 5 which was FOUR years ago. Wow, time flies fast. I remember relating so much to all the girls at that age but now I’m 14 and in Year 9 and while their behaviour seems really childish, I still get happy nostalgic memories.
It’s definitely not the best book but it’s so nostalgic for me and I love Mary Anne and also Dawn. Dawn is the literal best!
It’s definitely not the best book but it’s so nostalgic for me and I love Mary Anne and also Dawn. Dawn is the literal best!
inkstainedlife's review against another edition
4.0
One of the many perks of substitute teaching--near unlimited access to your favorite childhood series!