One of the good things about having children is a having an excuse (a reminder?) to revisit books from my childhood. I loved the Baby-Sitters Club, but there are so many more books now then there was when I stopped reading them.
"Kristy's Big News" is part of the BSC: Friends Forever series, a separate series to the main BSC series. The four main character are there: Kristy, Mary-Anne, Claudia and Stacey. Dawn has gone to live with her dad in California. I am not exactly sure what happened to Jessi and Mal and I presume that chronologically it is before Abbey appears.
While it is a little hard to tell where this series fits in relation to the main series it doesn't change the fact that these are still great kids books. Ann M. Martin's style is the same, but what this series does is looks at the "other side" to the baby-sitters. The focus is on the baby-sitters and other areas of their lives not on baby-sitting. In "Kristy's Big News" there is no baby-sitting at all!
In this book, Kristy's father reappears and asks her to go to his wedding along with her two older brothers. It has been years since he walked out on them and the contact since then has been limited and not consistent by any stretch of the imagination. This book deals with the emotional experience that Kristy, Sam and Charlie go through in seeing their biological father again and where he now fits in relation to their "new", crazy, blended family.
The writing in some ways is a little more sophisticated then the original BSC books, but a great book for middle-primary school aged children and for lovers of the original series.
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