Remember The Baby-Sitters Club book series from the ’80s? They were a series of hugely popular novels written by Ann M. Martin and a must-have for teenage girls everywhere! The book series was published by Scholastic between 1986 and 2000 and sold a record-breaking sold 176 million copies.
Audible, the world’s largest producer and provider of downloadable audiobooks and other spoken-word entertainment will release all 131 titles in Ann M. Martin’s blockbuster middle-grade series, The Baby-sitters Club. The first five stories in the collection are performed by Elle Fanning (Teen Spirit, Super 8, Maleficent) with the remaining volumes individually read by a cast of actresses including Brittany Pressley, Ali Ahn, Emily Bauer, Lauren Fortgang, Bahni Turpin, Erin Moon, Stephany Einstein, and Vanessa Johansson.
For the first time ever, these important stories that celebrate friendship and young female entrepreneurship will be performed as Audible books, enabling fans to keep these delightfully fun and remarkably empowering adventures in their ears while going about their daily routines, and offering a fresh take on these beloved classics from a group of wonderful actresses.
Elle Fanning commented: “The fierce friendships and babysitting adventures of The Baby-Sitters Club have been so much fun to perform! It has been such an exciting and new experience for me to bring this entrepreneurial squad to life as Audible books. People can now relive these coming of age stories in a whole new way or enjoy them for the very first time!”
All 131 titles will be available exclusively from Audible on August 13th, and if you can’t wait till tomorrow, you can pre-order them now at audible.com/bsc.
