--- description: Shockingly, it's not Stacey title: Baby-sitters Club Author Ann M. Martin Reveals Her Favorite Character image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta5469b20c29937a5/69875f5ae20a875988a82506/baby-sitter-club-ann-m-martin.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Living](/tag/time-section-living/) ## Living Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # _The Baby-Sitters Club_ Author Reveals the Name of Her Favorite Baby-Sitter by [Megan Gibson](/author/megan-gibson/) ## Megan Gibson Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Oct 9, 2014 2:55 PM CUT  The Baby-Sitters Club-The Summer Before " by Ann M. Martin on June 09, 2010 in Washington DC. The Baby-Sitters Club-The Summer Before " by Ann M. Martin on June 09, 2010 in Washington DC.Mark Gail—The Washington Post/Getty Images by [Megan Gibson](/author/megan-gibson/) ## Megan Gibson Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Oct 9, 2014 2:55 PM CUT Long before women were deciding whether they were a Carrie, Miranda, Samantha or Charlotte, they were young girls deciding whether they were a Kristy, Claudia, Mary Anne or Stacey. (Or, later on, a Dawn, Mallory or Jessi.) For many women of a certain age, the best-selling YA series _The Baby-Sitters Club_ was their first introduction to an iconic group of tight-knit girlfriends in pop-culture. The series, about a diverse group of 13 year-old girls who start their own babysitting business, was created and partially written by, Ann M. Martin, a major YA force throughout the 1980s and ’90s, inspiring several spin-off series, a TV series and a movie. In an interview with [Jenn Doll for _ELLE_](http://www.elle.com/pop-culture/reviews/ann-m-martin-baby-sitters-club-interview "undefined") about her new book, [_Rain Reign_](http://www.mackidsbooks.com/rainreign/ "undefined"), Martin reminisced about the famous series, saying, “\[M\]y favorite thing to hear about are people who grew up reading them, and have gone on to go into writing, become librarians, teachers, authors, editors. I just love hearing about that..” And, in the true spirit of BSC fandom, Martin even revealed which character she felt was closest to her own personality — and who was her favorite: “My favorite is Kristy, mostly because I created her first. I feel she set the series in motion. Also, she is my alter ego. I’m much more like Mary Anne. Kristy is so unlike me that it was a lot of fun to write her.” The best part of the interview for nostalgic fans is Martin’s answer to the question of whether she’d ever write a _Baby-Sitters Club_ reunion book: “Who knows? Never say never.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3484529/baby-sitters-club-ann-martin-kristy-mary-anne/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3484529/baby-sitters-club-ann-martin-kristy-mary-anne/"},"headline":"The Baby-Sitters Club Author Reveals the Name of Her Favorite Baby-Sitter","datePublished":"2014-10-09T14:55:47.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:56:08.295Z","description":"Shockingly, it's not Stacey","url":"https://time.com/3484529/baby-sitters-club-ann-martin-kristy-mary-anne/","keywords":["Living","Books","Culture"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta5469b20c29937a5/69875f5ae20a875988a82506/baby-sitter-club-ann-m-martin.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan Gibson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/megan-gibson/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta5469b20c29937a5/69875f5ae20a875988a82506/baby-sitter-club-ann-m-martin.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"summer book club-Washington DC","caption":"summer book club-Washington DC","creditText":"Mark Gail—The Washington Post/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-living/","name":"Living"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3484529/baby-sitters-club-ann-martin-kristy-mary-anne/","name":"The Baby-Sitters Club Author Reveals the Name of Her Favorite Baby-Sitter"}}]}] ```