Yours truly,
Nancy Green
P.S. This time, Haley, disguise your handwriting better!
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Dear Reader,
When I was growing up, my friends and I had sleepovers all the time. We never had one quite as elaborate as the one Dawn has in Dawn and the Big Sleepover. But they were always lots of fun. Most of our sleepovers were held at my best friend Beth’s house because she had a big rec room. Some of our favorite activities were playing Twister, Categories, and Battleship; making taffy (this was rarely successful); and, of course, eating junk food. But our favorite activity was watching Alfred Hitchcock’s movie The Birds. Remember that I grew up in the days before VCRs, so we couldn’t just bring a movie to a sleepover. We had to wait until The Birds was going to be on television, and then plan our sleepover around it. Another event we often tried to plan a sleepover around was New Year’s Eve. We would try to stay up all night, but we rarely made it past three or four in the morning. I haven’t been to a sleepover in years, but every time I hear of one I remember the fun parties my friends and I used to have.
Happy reading,
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The author gratefully acknowledges
Peter Lerangis
for his help in
preparing this manuscript.
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 © 1991 by Ann M. Martin.
Cover art by Hodges Soileau
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First edition, May 1991
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Ann M. Martin, Dawn and the Big Sleepover
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