redesignrelated (a great tumblr blog, btw):
In April 2010, Scholastic will publish repackaged titles from Ann M. Martin’s “The Baby-Sitter’s Club” series along with a prequel titled The Summer Before. We aren’t sure what the redesigned covers for the first 20 books in the series will look like, but we spotted a thumbnail for the prequel on the NYT site (seen above).
My favorite quote from the New York Times piece? “Editors at Scholastic updated some of the references to technology and outdated fashions in the reissued books. So a ‘cassette player’ has become ‘headphones’ and a ‘perm’ has become ‘an expensive hairstyle.’”
But why isn’t What Claudia Wore mentioned?!
It wasn’t just a perm that Stacy had, it was a “body wave” and I wanted one SO BAD. I also wanted to be on nickname-basis with “Bloomie’s.”
(But Stace had diabetes and her parents were divorced, so even though she was a model and she got to go to New York City you were supposed to feel kinda bad for her. I didn’t. I thought diabetes was cool.)
Reading this makes me want to dig out all of my old Babysitter Club books and read them - gosh I loved this series. Oh and who could forget the movie!
