The Godmother, Part One.
Someday Kristy would show it to Lynn, just to embarrass me.
I wouldn’t mind a bit. Plenty of good stuff would be on that video, too. The best part was when Peaches handed Lynn to me in the ceremony. Lynn stopped crying right away. She looked at me for a long moment.
And then, in front of the whole gathering, she smiled.
You know what? I don’t care what anyone thought.
I knew it wasn’t gas.
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Dear Reader,
In Claudia and the World’s Cutest Baby, Claudia is very excited when Peaches and Russ give their baby Claudia’s middle name, Lynn. When my parents were expecting me, they picked out two names: John Lawrence and Ann Elizabeth. In the end, I was named Ann Matthews (Matthews is my mother’s maiden name). Like Peaches and Russ, my parents were very proud of me. My mother wrote down everything I did in my baby book. For example, my first word was “ba,” for bird. Interestingly enough, one of my next words, “ackaminnie,” meant ice cream. I’m sure I wasn’t the world’s cutest baby, but my parents certainly thought I was.
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 © 1996 by Ann M. Martin
Cover art by Hodges Soileau
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First edition, May 1996
e-ISBN 978-0-545-79225-7
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