Customer Reviews

Dawn and Whitney, Friends Forever (Baby Sitters Club, No. 77)

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The book is very cool! When dawn meets Whitney, Dawn finds out that Whitney has a disease so Dawn asks her if she wants to be her baby-sitter. Dawn and Whitney really had a beautiful friendship in this book. Plus, Dawn's father is having dates with another girl and Dawn and Jeff are asked to come to their father's date.

I really love this book! It was extremely well written and Dawn and Whitney had a beautiful friendship. This book illustrates that just because you have a disability doesn't mean you're different from everyone else. Also Dawn's dad is in the dating game and dawn and jeff come along for family dates, that was also an interesting read. I think this is one of dawn's better books. A great read!

When dawn sits for whitney, Whitney thinks that dawn is great. Then one day, Whitney and Dawn went to the mall with the permission of whitney's parents. There Whitney buys a Friends forever necklace. Then Whitney finds out that she is being paid that Whitney wants the necklace back!

I think it was pretty good because shows people what it's like to have be look different or act different.

This is a book which deals with a sensitive topic - Downs syndrome. Dawn is hired to babysit a girl with this condition. Dawn treats Whitney very nicely, but Whitney starts to put too much emotion in the relationship, she does not realize that Dawn was just hired to babysit her and make sure she stays out of trouble - Whitney did not know that Dawn was being paid to keep her company. Overall a good book, though I do have one quibble, the person who did the cover might not have met a Down Syndrome person because the girl on the cover doesn't have the Down Syndrome facial features. Just a small quibble, but I do often wish that cover artists would know just what they were doing covers for!

since we already know what the plot is about thanks to reviews, I just want to say that my favourite parts in the book are when Dawn & Whitney go shopping and when Dawn's dad and his date, along with others in the neighborhood, attend a classical music picnic. There is also a special surprise at the end of the book relating to dawn's life, read it to find out!

I enjoyed reading about the shopping trips, the music picnic, the carnivals, the baby sitting and everything else.

Dawn gets a special job through the we Love kids Club. actually, it's not reallya baby sitting job. Dawn has been hired to keep twelve year old, whitney in company while her parents are out. Whitney, who has down Syndrome is delighted to have dawn as her friend. Dawn thinks whitney is great too. She's warm and fun to be around. The only problem is Whitnet doesn't know her parents are paying Dawn to be with her. And what if Whitney finds out?

I really loved this book since I bought it. I think what made it more enjoyable was the way it was descriptively written, anne did a great job writing this book. The way she described the baby sitting jobs, the family dates right down to the detail and the shopping trips almost made me feel as though I were watching a movie of it.

It is refreshing and wonderful to see a tastefully, believable story about a person with Down Syndrome. Ann Martin has a gift for creating realistic dialogues and characters. Her real talents lie in voice, placing, character development, plot and parallel plots. I like the way the babysitting charges often have a similar or parallel issue that their sitters face.

I never did like Dawn, though. I think she is a big mouth with no common sense. She blurts out to Whitney that she is Whitney's sitter and can't allow the girl to overindulge in eating sweets. Naturally Whitney is hurt to think that she has to have a hired sitter. It is a blow to her pride and is proof positive that Dawn is inconsiderate and has a big mouth.