Kristy's Big Day (10 page)
Authors: Ann M. Martin
Dear Reader,
Ever since I wrote
Kristy's Big Day
, it's been one of my favorite books in the Baby-sitters Club series. It was a lot of fun to write because of all the kids involved in the story. Plus, I think weddings are fun to write about! I also liked
Kristy's Big Day
because it's a family story, and it marks a change â not only in Kristy's life, but in the series. When Kristy's mother marries Watson, Kristy acquires a stepfather, and Karen and Andrew become important characters in the books. In fact, Kristy's little stepsister Karen was becoming such an important character, and I enjoyed writing about her so much, that it was around this time that I began to consider giving her a series of her own. A year later, the first Baby-sitters Little Sister book,
Karen's Witch
, was published.
Happy reading,
Ann M. Martin
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
ANN MATTHEWS MARTIN
was born on August 12, 1955. She grew up in Princeton, New Jersey, with her parents and her younger sister, Jane. There are currently over 176 million copies of The Baby-sitters Club in print. (If you stacked all of these books up, the pile would be 21,245 miles high.)
In addition to The Baby-sitters Club, Ann is the author of two other series, Main Street and Family Tree. Her novels include
Belle Teal
,
A Corner of the Universe
(a Newbery Honor book),
Here Today
,
A Dog's Life
,
On Christmas Eve
,
Everything for a Dog
,
Ten Rules for Living with My Sister
, and
Ten Good and Bad Things About My Life (So Far)
. She is also the coauthor, with Laura Godwin, of the Doll People series.
Ann lives in upstate New York with her dog and her cats.
Copyright © 1987 by Ann M. Martin. Â
Cover art by Hodges Soileau
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First edition, 1995
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