Posted
on August 12, 2016
When
Ann M. Martin was too little to write, she was already dictating
stories to her mom, who wrote them down for her. I wonder if her mom
realized, “Hey, my little girl will probably grow up to be a
best-selling author”?
That
little girl became a student at Smith College, a teacher, an editor
of children's books, a full-time writer, and THEN a best-selling
author!
Her
series The Baby-Sitters Club sold 176 MILLION copies!!
This
is not made any less amazing when you realize that Martin only wrote
the first 35 books in the series before a staff of “ghost writers”
started working on the series. After all, that staff WAS working with
the characters and format and even “voice” that Martin had
already established.
By
the time the series ended, there were 213 books in the series, and
Martin wrote between 60 and 80 of them.
The
books, which were published between 1986 and 2000, were so popular
that there were several spin-offs, including “Baby-Sitters Little
Sister” books (more than 100 in that series!) and graphic novels,
plus a TV series and a film.
Ann
M. Martin also wrote two novels-in-letters – P.S. Longer Letter
Later and Snail Mail No More – with author Paula
Danzinger, plus loads of other non-Baby-Sitters Club books. Her book
A Corner of the Universe won a Newbery Honor in 2003.
Have
you ever enjoyed a book series? Which one?
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