Things you buy through our links may earn New York a commission.In 1986, The Oprah Winfrey Show began beaming out of American screens, “” poured out of everybody’s radios, and the first pastel-covered Baby-Sitters Club book by Ann M. Martin started filling the shelves of young readers the nation over. Kristy’s Great Idea (which was for a group of middle-school girls to gather around a landline phone every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday afternoon so neighborhood parents could call in and reserve their babysitting services) came first. Within a year, Scholastic had published the...…Things you buy through our links may earn New York a commission.In 1986, The Oprah Winfrey Show began beaming out of American screens, “” poured out of everybody’s radios, and the first pastel-covered Baby-Sitters Club book by Ann M. Martin started filling the shelves of young readers the nation over. Kristy’s Great Idea (which was for a group of middle-school girls to gather around a landline phone every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday afternoon so neighborhood parents could call in and reserve their babysitting services) came first. Within a year, Scholastic had published the...WW…