Return of The Baby-Sitters Club.

Summer before From the New York Times:

Editors at Scholastic updated some of the references to technology and outdated fashions in the reissued books. So a "cassette player" has become "headphones" and a "perm" has become "an expensive hairstyle."

Hee.  It's funny (and GOOD!) that perms are mostly a Thing of the Past.  But "an expensive hairstyle" sounds so clinical and awkward and strange!  Then again, at least it won't be dated in five minutes.

It's funny -- I liked the graphic novel version of Kristy's Great Idea (I never did get to the others, though I guess there've been four) much more than I ever liked the actual books*.  They translated well to the format, and the artist/author was true to the characters and story.  But I'm sure that there are many, many people who will be over the moon about this, even if the cover of the new prequel looks a tad bland.

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*And I've loved Ann M. Martin's later books a bazillion times more than I ever loved The Baby-Sitters Club.  Which, really, I didn't at all, so I guess that isn't actually saying a whole lot.  But her later, non-series books have been really, really good.