[ SECRET POST #4936 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4936 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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Comments

[fscom]

01. https://i.imgur.com/Tykp5ad.jpg

[(Anonymous)]

As an adult, I like the new style of cover better than that style, but as a kid, I loved those illustrations and probably would have thought the current style was boring. I can see the flaws in the art more clearly now, when as a kid I was impressed at all the details and how realistic they looked. I think in general more kids, the audience for these books, would prefer an attempt at a good, realistic illustration even if it's flawed, than just a cover with a fancy font and some photo of a vaguely related object artfully stuck on.

[(Anonymous)]

Ooo this secret took me WAY back anon, thank you. When I was really young it was all Boxcar Kids and Babysitters Club and Ramona books for me.

[(Anonymous)]

BOXCAR KIDS had this style ALL DAY

I preferred the Bailey's Schoolhouse Kids covers --- a hint of that style with some wackiness to it!

DA

[(Anonymous)]

I loved the Bailey School Kids art! I liked the black and white illustrations even more than the covers. I wasn't even a huge fan of the books, but I remember looking through them just for the pictures.

[(Anonymous)]

Same :D. I very clearly remember that BSC book (which was one of my favorites in the series).

[(Anonymous)]

I actually made a similar secret years ago. I miss the illustrations especially on fantasy novels.

[greghousesgf]

I loved the Beverly Cleary books when I was a kid.

[sabotabby]

I'm doing an art course now and one of my goals is to learn to paint in an old school style. There are a lot of cool book cover designs now but I desperately love that retro look.

[(Anonymous)]

I had both of these books when I was a kid and with those covers too! The cover for Kristy's Big Day is one of my favorite illustrations and I wish there was a way to buy a print of it so I could hang it in my living room.

[venusundae]

i love illustrations like this, and am definitely nostalgic about them. and i can definitely tell how it's influenced goals i had when learning to draw and paint growing up.

[torncurtain]

The Ramona books was what started my love for reading when I was a kid along with BSC, Sweet Valley Twins etc.

[(Anonymous)]

I think one reason why they don't do this is that the covers date quickly. The stories, not so much.

[(Anonymous)]

Well, when the Babysitters Club got cover updates it also got story updates. Small things like videotapes getting changed to DVDs, references to 80s toys that the kids played in the original with were changed to contemporary toys. I'm not sure how it dealt with other things that would seem weird today, like Claudia having her own phone line being a big deal and the whole reason all the club meetings took place in her room.

[(Anonymous)]

nayrt


Sort of OT, but since you mentioned Claudia (my fave) and her phone line...

So I just got my own internet connection and I felt like I was finally living my BSC dreams because I too wanted my own phone line, although I was nowhere near as entrepreneurial as Kristy was. Except now, instead of a phone line, it's an internet connection.

I'm guessing an update to that would be either their own cell phone, or paying for their own phone plans. Or having a phone plan they all pitched in for -- for specifically BSC communications.

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DA

All this talk of changes to the BSC reminds me-I don't know if you've seen it yet, but Netflix has a new TV series of the "Baby-Sitters Club" that's out now, and they do a great job of adapting it to modern times.

(The show as a whole is really cute in general, so if you haven't seen it yet, I'd recommend it :D.)

[(Anonymous)]

dunno if this would be a spoiler or not, but they set the current netflix adaptation in the modern era and i had been wondering about how they would deal with the phone, basically claudia's family still has the additional land line and they just buy an old 90s phone from etsy so they still have the old phone.

[(Anonymous)]

same tbh

[melissatreglia]

Oh, man. That brings back memories.

I had so many of the Babysitter's Little Sister books because my mom had signed me up to the BLS fanclub. I was always so excited to get a new letter every month from "Karen" (the titular Little Sister) and a new volume in the series to go with it.