The Baby-Sitter's Club: Kristy's Great Idea by Raina Telgemeier

Helloooooo everybody,

Book cover from Amazon

I am back with a review on The Baby-Sitter's Club by Raina Telgemeier.  Telgemeier took Ann M. Martin's series The Babysitter's Club and adapted 4 titles from this series into graphic novels.  Book Riot did an article on these books, you can read that here!

Now, if you know anything about me then you know that within the last couple of months, I have taken a liking to both juvenile and young adult graphic novels!  Graphic novels have a wonderful ability to tell a story in a different way and they appeal to a reader who might feel intimidated or might not have any interest in reading a chapter book or a juvenile fiction book. 

I have to say...  I don't ever remembering reading a book from The Babysitter's Club series.  As someone who loves to work with kids, has aspirations to be a school librarian and someone who used to babysit, the series never appealed to me before.  Now here I am, at the age of 31, picking up my first Baby-Sitter's book and it's a graphic novel.

Raina Telgemeier is a very talented author and illustrator.  I read Smile for my children's literature class last Spring and I thought that way that she was able to tell the story was fantastic.  It was also something that as the reader, you found to be relatable. That can be another review for another day!

I must say that I enjoyed the graphic novel.  I liked the flow that the graphic novel gave to the story.  I thought that Telgemeier did a great job with showing Kristy's inner thoughts right after her having a dialogue.  You got the vibe of who the characters were and the actions and the thoughts of the characters were relatable - though I must say that Kristy was quite fresh. 

Unfortunately, I never read the books so I can't compare it to what Ann M. Martin originally wrote.  But I was able to get a feel for who the characters were and I felt like maybe the graphic novel gave a little something that the original books did not.  

Would I recommend this graphic novel? Absolutely!  Would I say that you should go run out and buy a copy? No way.  I think this is perfectly acceptable to borrow from your library! (Shameless plug for using your local library!)

- Jillian