the house is a complete mess, and she just wears their dad's bathrobe moping and eating nothing but peanut butter and crackers. but then their mom basically stays depressed and can't move on. they also get different clothes and stop dressing alike all the time. they decide that anna will cut her hair so they can wear different clothes and people will tell them apart. they're bummed out that their dad doesn’t know the difference but it turns out he was playing along and knew they switched. no one can tell that they switched, even their dad. the kids tease them more, call them red and blue, respectively, and finally they switch clothes to test whether anyone notices the difference (very tia and tamera style). the teacher forces them to wear different colors (abby always wears red, anna always wears blue), because she can’t be bothered to tell them apart.

first grade: everyone thinks abby and anna are exactly the same and calls them abby-anna. the following are the sections of abby’s biography, divided by age and plotline: This is the last of our portrait collection series, also by ghostwriter Jeanne Betancourt. Her favorite thing to do is to make clothes for children. Her hobbies are reading, sewing, and needlework. Since ending the BSC series in 2000, Ann’s writing has concentrated on single novels, many of which are set in the 1960s.Īfter living in New York City for many years, Ann moved to the Hudson Valley in upstate New York where she now lives with her dog, Sadie, and her cats, Gussie, Willy and Woody.

They inspired her to become a writer herself. Travers, Hugh Lofting, Astrid Lindgren, and Roald Dahl. Some of her favorite authors at that time were Lewis Carroll, P. Even before she was old enough to write, she would dictate stories to her mother to write down for her. Sometimes Ann names her characters after people she knows, and other times she simply chooses names that she likes.Īnn has always enjoyed writing. But many of her characters are based on real people. All of Ann's characters, even the members of the Baby-sitters Club, are made up. Many are written about contemporary problems or events. Some are based on personal experiences, while others are based on childhood memories and feelings. She's now a full-time writer.Īnn gets the ideas for her books from many different places. After graduating from Smith College, Ann became a teacher and then an editor of children's books. She grew up in Princeton, New Jersey, with her parents and her younger sister, Jane. Ann Matthews Martin was born on August 12, 1955.

Abby's Book by Ann M. Martin