Claudia Kishi, Live From WSTO! is the 85th book in The Baby-Sitters Club series.
Back Cover Summary[]
Claudia has a radio show! Twice a week, she'll host a program she's created called For Kids Only—a great mix of music, jokes, stories, skits, and interviews. It's sure to be a hit...if it ever gets on the air, that is. Before the first broadcast, Claudia has to sort things out with an assistant who drives her crazy, audition dozens of acts, and cope with some difficult "guests".
Will Claudia be ready when Stoneybrook tunes in?
Summary[]
Subplot[]
Characters[]
Claudia's Family
BSC Members
Kids
- Jake Kuhn (mentioned)
- Jordan, Adam, Byron, Vanessa, Nicky, Margo, and Claire Pike
- Buddy, Suzi, Marnie Barrett and Lindsey, Taylor, Ryan, and Madeleine DeWitt
- Jackie Rodowsky
- Rosie Wilder (mentioned)
- Marilyn and Carolyn Arnold
Pre-Teens
Teenagers
- Ashley Wyeth
- Stacey McGill
- Emily Bernstein (mentioned)
- Pete Black (mentioned)
- Erica Blumberg (mentioned)
- Sue Archer (mentioned)
- Alan Gray
- Stacey McGill
- Robert Brewster (mentioned)
Radio Guests
- Frank and Tim - comedy routine guys
- Bill Shebar and Katie Geissinger - the movie reviewers
- Julie Mansfield and Jennifer Evans - singers
- Joanne, Cheryl - girl who calls for advice
- Regina, Cathy, and David - kids who read a story
- Sandy, Sarah - callers for the book jeopardy
- Sarah Sutton, the backward talker
- Curious Quartet, who played the banjo, the tin whistle, the Jew’s harp, and the washboard
- Rob Miller, an eighth-grader from Stoneybrook Day School, told the strangest story
- Denise - girl asking for advice
Adults
- Mr. and Mrs. Wilder
- Mr. Bullock - Station Manager
- Max - worker at WSTO
- Bob Atkinson - intern
- Mrs. Wyeth (mentioned)
- Rhonda Hewitt
- Dr. Reese (mentioned)
- Theodore “Ted” Garber - author of the spooky, creepy, gross, and super-popular series Night Frights
Locations[]
- Kishi House
- Pike House
- WSTO Station
- DeWitt/Barrett House
Pop Culture and Real-Life References[]
- Aladdin
- A Whole New World
- The Lion King, Mrs. Doubtfire
- Elvis Presley
- Frankenstein
- The Beatles
- Robin Williams
- Titanic
- Mozart
- Nancy Drew, I Hate English by Ellen Levine and Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher, Babar, The Wizard of Oz, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, Mary Poppins, Jennifer Murdley’s Toad, (books)
- Robin Hood
- I Love Lucy
- The Jungle Book
- Disney World
- Bruce Coville and Dr. Suess (authors)
Continuity and Inconsistencies[]
Continuity
- Stacey and the BSC are still fighting from Stacey vs. the BSC.
- Claudia mentions that Kristy was the lead in Peter Pan from Starring the Baby-sitters Club!, Peaches miscarriage from Claudia and Crazy Peaches, when Alan came to her art show in Claudia and the Genius of Elm Street, Claudia's personals from Claudia and the Perfect Boy, when Dawn was on TV in Dawn and the We Love Kids Club, and the Arnold Twins history from Mallory and the Trouble with Twins.
Inconsistencies
- Janine is said to be high school sophomore. But she’s actually a junior.
- Claudia says computers hate her even though she was good at it when she was writing her column in Claudia and the Perfect Boy.
- Claudia says that she can't cook when she'd help make dinner in earlier books.
- Claudia said Mimi's English wasn't great because she'd immigrated from Japan. Before her stroke Mimi's English was excellent.
- Claudia and Ashley act like they weren't friends since the end of Claudia and the New Girl, however, they have talked to each other.
Ann M. Martin's Dear Reader Letter[]
Dear Reader:
In Claudia Kishi, Live from WSTO!, Claudia has her very own radio program. I never wanted to do anything like that (I'm much too shy), but when my sister and I were little, one of our favorite activities was making up radio shows. My family got a tape recorder when I was about eight years old, and my sister and I loved playing with it. We made up entire radio shows, complete with interviews and commercials. Then we taped ourselves performing them and played the tapes for our parents. In one program my sister pretended to interview Meadowlark Lemon, one of the Harlem Globetrotters at the time!
As you might imagine, for me, writing the shows was more enjoyable than performing them. And I think it was a good experience. Without realizing it, I was learning about pacing and about writing conversation. You never know what you might learn when you're having fun.
Trivia[]
- Kristy misses a BSC meeting sometime prior to this book she had strep throat in BSLS #60, which is chronologically set before this one.
- Stacey and Claudia talk about being friends again and reconcile
- When Jake Kuhn goes "home" playing softball, Claudia thinks he's going to his house.
- Kristy used to "bop" Claudia with a Raggedy Ann doll because she didn't learn to walk as fast.
- Mal the great author writes about the Oogly Oogly Beast
- This is the second appearance of Ashley in the series since Claudia and the New Girl.
- Dawn calls meat "murdered mammals."
- Kristy and Bart are "sort of" boyfriend and girlfriend.
- Claudia is official off-hours phone answerer because the line is hers, which is part of her vice president duties.
- Claudia wanted to learn: tuba, tap dancing, cooking, chorus, swimming, and drama club.
- This is the second time Jessi teaches a BSC member dancing, the first time she taught Stacey in Stacey and the Cheerleaders.
- Mr. Kishi tapes Claudia's show
- Mallory gets shy to perform just like Mary Anne.
- WSTO has been around since World War II.
- Jessi takes all kinds of dance lessons. In other books, she only takes ballet.