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Judy says: Thank you, thank you for all your wonderful notes. I only wish I could write back to each of you personally. But in order to start a new book I need serious thinking time, which means less time for e-mail. Hope you understand.
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My daughter's (Sophia) 4th grade class had the pleasure of meeting you on video chat today. What Sophia doesn't know, is that there is a collection of your books under the Christmas tree this year. You were one of my favorite authors as a young boy and it fills my heart that my Sophia loves you as well. The world is a better place because of you Judy. Thank you for that.
Judy,
I just returned home from my first trip to Key West tonight. I decided to make the pilgrimage to Books and Books after I saw your
Documentary this year. While you didn’t happen to be in on any of my trips to the store this week, I was so glad I chose to visit. I picked up a few of my favorite titles to reread on the beach. The magic of your books is that reading them at different points in my life illuminates new perspectives on my friendships and choices, from the first discovery of Margaret and Then Again in my sixth grade library 35 years ago, finding them again after my first marriage, then looking for comfort reading in my parents’ house as I tried to find the ground under my feet after a second divorce…this time I re-read Summer Sisters and Wifey, thinking about the friendship with my best friend from age nine to our final friendship breakup after she married years ago. Reflecting on how thankful I am to now be divorced and finding a new, more comfortable and honest version of myself for the first time in my late forties. Embracing life as a professional and mother of a tweenage son. Your books have been cornerstones and mainstays of all my life’s milestones, happy and tragic, and I am so grateful for these anchoring stories.
This week, I biked around the island, ate well, was delighted by six-toed cats and legions of strutting fowl, strolled through inclusive streets and shops and parades of relaxed, mature vacationers and natives. I am 99% sure I passed you walking one morning as I moseyed into town. I like to think so, anyway. It was a magic trip with no real agenda. Thank you for the inspiration. Your work has and always will be so meaningful to so many of us making our way through the world and stages of life, from menarche to menopause, from friendship to heartache, from beginnings and endings, and beyond. Heart full, Jessica <3
I just returned home from my first trip to Key West tonight. I decided to make the pilgrimage to Books and Books after I saw your
Documentary this year. While you didn’t happen to be in on any of my trips to the store this week, I was so glad I chose to visit. I picked up a few of my favorite titles to reread on the beach. The magic of your books is that reading them at different points in my life illuminates new perspectives on my friendships and choices, from the first discovery of Margaret and Then Again in my sixth grade library 35 years ago, finding them again after my first marriage, then looking for comfort reading in my parents’ house as I tried to find the ground under my feet after a second divorce…this time I re-read Summer Sisters and Wifey, thinking about the friendship with my best friend from age nine to our final friendship breakup after she married years ago. Reflecting on how thankful I am to now be divorced and finding a new, more comfortable and honest version of myself for the first time in my late forties. Embracing life as a professional and mother of a tweenage son. Your books have been cornerstones and mainstays of all my life’s milestones, happy and tragic, and I am so grateful for these anchoring stories.
This week, I biked around the island, ate well, was delighted by six-toed cats and legions of strutting fowl, strolled through inclusive streets and shops and parades of relaxed, mature vacationers and natives. I am 99% sure I passed you walking one morning as I moseyed into town. I like to think so, anyway. It was a magic trip with no real agenda. Thank you for the inspiration. Your work has and always will be so meaningful to so many of us making our way through the world and stages of life, from menarche to menopause, from friendship to heartache, from beginnings and endings, and beyond. Heart full, Jessica <3
Dear Judy,
As one of the countless people around the world who have been touched by your writing—I want to say thank you.
My relationship with your writing began forty-four years ago, in 1979. My dad, who was around 9 at the time, read Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing before starting fourth grade himself. Coincidentally, my dad went on to live in New York City after graduating college, not too far from 25 West 68th Street. In the summer of 2012, thirty-three years after forming his connection to your book, my dad read Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing to me before I began fourth grade. As an adult, who has since become a writer living in Brooklyn, I look back on the nights spent reading with my dad as some of my most cherished childhood memories. Although I cannot speak to anyone else’s experience, I imagine many share a similar story to mine.
Thank you for writing with honesty and integrity—and for providing your readers with a safe-haven to experience and bond over the good, bad, and oftentimes uncomfortable moments in the story of Life. It has been a privilege to grow up alongside your characters, I would not be the person I am today without them.
Sincerely,
Megan
P.S. Thank you for speaking out against literary censorship and your continued activism amid the book banning epidemic in America. You and all 5 of your banned books rock!
As one of the countless people around the world who have been touched by your writing—I want to say thank you.
My relationship with your writing began forty-four years ago, in 1979. My dad, who was around 9 at the time, read Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing before starting fourth grade himself. Coincidentally, my dad went on to live in New York City after graduating college, not too far from 25 West 68th Street. In the summer of 2012, thirty-three years after forming his connection to your book, my dad read Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing to me before I began fourth grade. As an adult, who has since become a writer living in Brooklyn, I look back on the nights spent reading with my dad as some of my most cherished childhood memories. Although I cannot speak to anyone else’s experience, I imagine many share a similar story to mine.
Thank you for writing with honesty and integrity—and for providing your readers with a safe-haven to experience and bond over the good, bad, and oftentimes uncomfortable moments in the story of Life. It has been a privilege to grow up alongside your characters, I would not be the person I am today without them.
Sincerely,
Megan
P.S. Thank you for speaking out against literary censorship and your continued activism amid the book banning epidemic in America. You and all 5 of your banned books rock!
Dear Judy,
Shalom! Michal and I loved your documentary! Thank you so much! So much spoke to us and our growing up years! Please come visit us when you come to Israel! We’d love to host you in the VIP room in our home! Between us we have twelve children and 48 grandchildren ( in the meantime)! It was so heartwarming to hear about you and George!
Shabbat Shalom, Alan Friedman
Shalom! Michal and I loved your documentary! Thank you so much! So much spoke to us and our growing up years! Please come visit us when you come to Israel! We’d love to host you in the VIP room in our home! Between us we have twelve children and 48 grandchildren ( in the meantime)! It was so heartwarming to hear about you and George!
Shabbat Shalom, Alan Friedman
I'm an OG when it comes to your books. Meaning I've read superfudge and tales of a 4th grade nothing. It's people like you that seen me through trouble times. I bless you; if their were anyone I want to check and balance my conservatism, it's Ms. Blume and Ms. V.C Andrews.
Dear Judy,
The @MiddleGradeHub is an online writing community whose goal is to bring middle-grade writers together and create a place of mutual respect in which we could support each other’s writing journeys. We facilitate small writing groups, host author chats on the business and craft of writing, and are there for each other every step of the way. We are 100% free to all and run by a group of volunteers.
From time to time we host middle grade authors via zoom for a q&a chat. We were so very hopeful (you are an inspiration to so many of us) that you might be willing to do a zoom chat with us. We all love you and it’s our biggest hope to have you with us. Thank you for considering it!
The @MiddleGradeHub is an online writing community whose goal is to bring middle-grade writers together and create a place of mutual respect in which we could support each other’s writing journeys. We facilitate small writing groups, host author chats on the business and craft of writing, and are there for each other every step of the way. We are 100% free to all and run by a group of volunteers.
From time to time we host middle grade authors via zoom for a q&a chat. We were so very hopeful (you are an inspiration to so many of us) that you might be willing to do a zoom chat with us. We all love you and it’s our biggest hope to have you with us. Thank you for considering it!
Are you there Judy? It's me, Chloe. I so so so dearly love your books! My class has been reading the Fudge Books, and let's say, our whole class LOVED it. I adore you writing. It's so inspiring and it comes from the heart. Since year 2, I've been writing stories of my choice; whatever comes to mind. I really enjoy my stories but some people think it's "over the top". Sometimes I agree with them. I want to enjoy my life as an 'author' but I don't think I will be successful. I am Asian, from China to be exact. People stereotype Chinese people to be "Prodigies" or "Really smart mathematicians" but I've never had a click towards math, I've kind of detested it. People expect me to get perfect grades and be like everyone else, but it's not easy for me to 'blend in'. In Australia, people are full of freedom and diversity. I just feel like I'm the odd one out. Whenever I'm writing a story, I always stop because I feel extremely judged. Sometimes I wonder, why I'm not like everyone else. Everyone else is free to do whatever they want while I feel like a animal trapped in a cage, no where to run, no where to hide. When will I fit in Judy? Are you there Judy? It's me Chloe.
Thank you for the priceless gifts you have given the world. My wonderful 6th grade teacher, Elizabeth Betts, at Franklin Elementary in Moline, Illnois introduced us to your fabulous books. She purchased everything you had written up to that point - 1975-76 - and kept the books on the window sill in the classroom. We could check them out. Rarely was there a book on the window sill, because we read them. Oh, did we read them! We devoured them. Every word. Such a fabulous highlight of adolescence. You made us feel "normal" when we all felt so abnormal. I now teach at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. I encourage good writing. When students ask me what can help them become better writers, I have one answer: read. Then read some more. And never, ever stop reading. I plan to read all of your books again. And then I will send them to my great-niece, who I hope will devour them until she, too, feels like she belongs in this crazy world. 🙂 Thank you, Ms. Blume, from all of us in Mrs. Betts' 6th grade class.
I'm a 52 year old woman who grew up with your stories. At this point in my life I am wishing more than anything else that you had written a sequel called "Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret in Menopause." I find it peculiar that the same generation that found freedom to talk about our periods is now struggling to express everything that's happening to us as our child-bearing years wane. Thank you for giving us language for talking about changes to our bodies, Judy. Even now it still means the world.
Hi Judy and team. I just saw the trailer for the new movie and had a true light bulb moment. Many friends comment on my prayer style. I’m pretty relaxed and intimate in prayer. Turns out, I learnt to pray from reading “Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret “. Thank you!!!!!!
Good morning Judy,
My students love, love Freckle Juice! Some of them even wrote the next chapter and designed a cover page too! We even used the recipe in the book and made our very own Freckle Juice. Don’t worry, no one tasted it just smelled it. Hopefully, you’re able to reach out to us, so I can send you the pictures of their covers. Better yet, a zoom call would be amazing! 🙂
My students love, love Freckle Juice! Some of them even wrote the next chapter and designed a cover page too! We even used the recipe in the book and made our very own Freckle Juice. Don’t worry, no one tasted it just smelled it. Hopefully, you’re able to reach out to us, so I can send you the pictures of their covers. Better yet, a zoom call would be amazing! 🙂
Hi Judy,
I'm a earlier generation of people. I'm Basically teen and reading your books has got me through alot and I'm happy that I Discovered your Books and that's all I read now.pls email me Back.
I'm a earlier generation of people. I'm Basically teen and reading your books has got me through alot and I'm happy that I Discovered your Books and that's all I read now.pls email me Back.
Hello Judy! I’m a 42-year-old woman who had the good fortune of a childhood filled with your books. Now I have six- and seven-year-old sons, and I read those books to them!
I was reading “Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret” to them last year and had left the open book on the table when my mom (the boys’ grandma) came to visit and sit with them a while as I went out. She was surprised I was reading “that book” to the boys. I told her that books weren’t for boys or girls — books are for everyone, and boys should know what girls think about and vice versa.
By the time I came home, she’d read a chapter of “that book” aloud to her grandsons.
To this day, your books are some of my sons’ favorites — and mine too. Thank you!
I was reading “Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret” to them last year and had left the open book on the table when my mom (the boys’ grandma) came to visit and sit with them a while as I went out. She was surprised I was reading “that book” to the boys. I told her that books weren’t for boys or girls — books are for everyone, and boys should know what girls think about and vice versa.
By the time I came home, she’d read a chapter of “that book” aloud to her grandsons.
To this day, your books are some of my sons’ favorites — and mine too. Thank you!
Never too late!
Just wanted to tell you what a wonderful, beautiful and awesome human being you are Judy! I watched a program about you recently, which reminded me just how many of your awesome books I read and that there is still more to know about you as a person and more books to explore.
Thank you so much, for supporting us all and writing such wonderful books and dealing with all the crap you had to, to fight for them and our right to engage with issues that matter. I realise there are some books I’ve missed (somehow), so will definitely be seeking them out.
Much love, a fan of at least 28 years..
Leah
Just wanted to tell you what a wonderful, beautiful and awesome human being you are Judy! I watched a program about you recently, which reminded me just how many of your awesome books I read and that there is still more to know about you as a person and more books to explore.
Thank you so much, for supporting us all and writing such wonderful books and dealing with all the crap you had to, to fight for them and our right to engage with issues that matter. I realise there are some books I’ve missed (somehow), so will definitely be seeking them out.
Much love, a fan of at least 28 years..
Leah
Hi Judy! I really enjoyed your books growing up and your work inspired me to start writing my own stories. Thank you for the inspiration you give me and many others.
Sincerely,
Sincerely,
Are you there Judy, it’s me, Dawn!! I just wanted to let you know that as a child I loved all of your books! All of my friends did too! I am now 56 and still have yearly visits with my middle school and high school friends. We watched the movie “Are You There God It’s Me Margaret” together at a beautiful river front cabin in Arkansas this past June (so far from all of our California roots). We laughed our asses off remembering our youth from bits and pieces of the movie! As we got to talking, none of us remember the actual underlying theme of the book. We just remember the “period” and breast stuff! So thank you from the bottom of my heart for your role in the memories of our lives!!
Hi,Judy!
I've always admired your writing, and at 57 years old, I still believe that nearly everything I learned about life as a young guy I learned from Judy Blume. My wife and I will be in Key West from the 26th of November thru December 1st. I still have my original copy of the Boys' bible (Then Again, Maybe I Won't) from when I was 13 or so years old. I'm hoping that you'll be in town while we're there so I might be able to bring it in and have you sign it for me. As a recently retired elementary teacher, I can speak to the timelessness of your books and how they have been a big part of not only MY life, but the lives of hundreds of kids I've taught as well. You have been an inspiration and a hero to me.
Respectfully,
Dave
I've always admired your writing, and at 57 years old, I still believe that nearly everything I learned about life as a young guy I learned from Judy Blume. My wife and I will be in Key West from the 26th of November thru December 1st. I still have my original copy of the Boys' bible (Then Again, Maybe I Won't) from when I was 13 or so years old. I'm hoping that you'll be in town while we're there so I might be able to bring it in and have you sign it for me. As a recently retired elementary teacher, I can speak to the timelessness of your books and how they have been a big part of not only MY life, but the lives of hundreds of kids I've taught as well. You have been an inspiration and a hero to me.
Respectfully,
Dave
Hi Judy,
I’ve recently rediscovered your books. I loved them as a child. Now my kids are loving them too. Our favourites are the Fudge books. We’ve been reading these out loud together. It’s hard to find books that a 6yr old girl, 10 yr old boy and 12 yr old girl will all like, but Fudge has us covered. Thank you!
I’ve recently rediscovered your books. I loved them as a child. Now my kids are loving them too. Our favourites are the Fudge books. We’ve been reading these out loud together. It’s hard to find books that a 6yr old girl, 10 yr old boy and 12 yr old girl will all like, but Fudge has us covered. Thank you!
Dear Judy Blume,
My name is Blaire and I am 8 years old and I have just finished Tales Of A Fourth Grade Nothing and I liked when Peter told everyone in the elevator what happened to Fudge when he swallowed Dribble because it was funny and it got whispered to different people! I think that you are a great author and you should be a celebrity! FROM BLAIRE
My name is Blaire and I am 8 years old and I have just finished Tales Of A Fourth Grade Nothing and I liked when Peter told everyone in the elevator what happened to Fudge when he swallowed Dribble because it was funny and it got whispered to different people! I think that you are a great author and you should be a celebrity! FROM BLAIRE
I just finished reading your book “Forever” and it was amazing. The way you write, explain, and describes things are so beautiful. You’ve broadened my reading from many of your books and that means a lot to me.
Sincerely,
Eva
Sincerely,
Eva
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