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dear judy
a couple of years ago i read your book are you there god its me Margret and i loved i it belonged to my mother when she was my age (14) and i loved it because it was funny and relatable
Ashley
a couple of years ago i read your book are you there god its me Margret and i loved i it belonged to my mother when she was my age (14) and i loved it because it was funny and relatable
Ashley
Dear Judy,
We have just read the book Freckle Juice, as a book club. We loved the story and found out you started the idea from the title because your child made freckle juice in the bathtub. We are wondering how did you think of the recipe and what inspired you to think of the characters' names?
Thank you for your amazing writing!
Ms. Katie (Teacher Librarian) and 5 students of grade 3 at Hong Kong Academy
We have just read the book Freckle Juice, as a book club. We loved the story and found out you started the idea from the title because your child made freckle juice in the bathtub. We are wondering how did you think of the recipe and what inspired you to think of the characters' names?
Thank you for your amazing writing!
Ms. Katie (Teacher Librarian) and 5 students of grade 3 at Hong Kong Academy
Dear Judy,
I have had the absolute pleasure of meeting you twice. Once was back in 2019- I bought a tote bag and you signed it and you picked out books for me to read to/with my then 5 year old twins.
Then this past March, I was in Key West for a cruise and I got to bring my now 11 year old twins, my mother who taught your books for 40 years in her elementary classroom and my aunt to Books and Books. You took photos with us and signed my daughter's copy of Blubber. I hope to meet you more times in the future but if not, thank you. Thank you for bringing your characters to the world and your activism to my life. I've chickened out in person both times I've met you, but I want you to know, I read summer sisters every Memorial Day weekend, I have lost track of how many years but it's definitely over 15 at least. So thanks for being with me as I kick off my summer every year. Oh, and whatever happens with Caitlin and Vix??
With love,respect and hope,
Cara from Fort Myers
I have had the absolute pleasure of meeting you twice. Once was back in 2019- I bought a tote bag and you signed it and you picked out books for me to read to/with my then 5 year old twins.
Then this past March, I was in Key West for a cruise and I got to bring my now 11 year old twins, my mother who taught your books for 40 years in her elementary classroom and my aunt to Books and Books. You took photos with us and signed my daughter's copy of Blubber. I hope to meet you more times in the future but if not, thank you. Thank you for bringing your characters to the world and your activism to my life. I've chickened out in person both times I've met you, but I want you to know, I read summer sisters every Memorial Day weekend, I have lost track of how many years but it's definitely over 15 at least. So thanks for being with me as I kick off my summer every year. Oh, and whatever happens with Caitlin and Vix??
With love,respect and hope,
Cara from Fort Myers
Dear Judy Blume, I love your books. I think you are pretty. All of your books have been passed down, though generational.
P.S. Please write back.
From
Serafina Al
P.S. Please write back.
From
Serafina Al
Dear Mrs. Blume,
My third grade class just finished the FUDGE series and we absolutely loved each book! I normally end the school year with the series but found that my students fell in love with reading when we started TALES OF A FOURTH GRADE NOTHING. For the upcoming school year I will start the school year with TALES OF A FOURTH GRADE NOTHING. We loved your books!!! Thank you for creating magic in our lives.
Sinceerely,
Mrs. Aguilera's Third Grade Class
2024-2025
My third grade class just finished the FUDGE series and we absolutely loved each book! I normally end the school year with the series but found that my students fell in love with reading when we started TALES OF A FOURTH GRADE NOTHING. For the upcoming school year I will start the school year with TALES OF A FOURTH GRADE NOTHING. We loved your books!!! Thank you for creating magic in our lives.
Sinceerely,
Mrs. Aguilera's Third Grade Class
2024-2025
Hello Mrs. Blume, I’ve always loved your books. I remember times when you would allow my cousin and I to come to your house and read many of your books. We’d sit on your hardwood floors and read books all day. You had boxes and boxes of books. I appreciate you allowing us to experience reading from inside your world. You kept us from being out in the crazy world all those many years ago. I just wanted to say thank you. My cousin and I have read every single book of yours that we could get our hands on. Just knowing that we knew you personally was the greatest blessing to us ever. I hope you remember Deandre and I but if you do not just know we remember you and we missed you when you moved away. We love you Mrs Blume and thank you for adding to our lives.
Judy,
My boyfriend and I were chatting about books today and your work came up and I was so happy. Your books really lit up my girlhood and were true friends, with real, well-rounded female characters that I could relate to. You are such a gift and such a formative part of many lives. Thank you <3
My boyfriend and I were chatting about books today and your work came up and I was so happy. Your books really lit up my girlhood and were true friends, with real, well-rounded female characters that I could relate to. You are such a gift and such a formative part of many lives. Thank you <3
Thank you so much for your censorship resources! I am writing an essay for my college censorship in the media course and I decided to mention you as an influence in the 1970s and 1980s. I was pleasantly surprised to see your page on censorship! Sincerely, a 2nd generation fan
Hello Judy,
I’m 40 years old, and I was raised on your YA novels. I’m autistic, and have adhd, and I’m currently struggling with burnout. Yesterday, I decided to revisit first chapter book I ever read - “Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great”.
I was probably 8 or 9 when I sat down with my mum to read it, and it quickly became clear that I was too impatient to listen to mum read (she didn’t even do the voices!) and so I read it alone, my first solo book without pictures! I remember loving it, and it opened the door to all of your other wonderful books, that I devoured voraciously over the next 10 years. All except “Forever”! I’d heard it was too mature, and I wasn’t about to break the rules!
My final foray with your stories was “Summer Sisters”, bought for me by my godmother when I was far too young, and read (through tears by the end) in 3 nights.
Over the years, I learned about periods from Margaret, body image from Deenie, toxic diet culture from Linda, and racism from Sally… oh and a few other things from Vix and Caitlin!
I wanted to get in touch with you because re-reading Sheila’s story (on audible, read by your good self) showed me who I always was. I am Sheila. Scared that I was doing everything wrong. Terrified to admit that I wasn’t an expert in something. An “interesting” person with weird feet! A know it all.
All those years ago, you gave me a portrait of myself, and I didn’t even know it.
I wasn’t diagnosed with adhd until I was 35, and I’m yet to be assessed for autism, but as I read about Sheila’s adventures in Tarrytown, I saw myself in every line. In particular the grand dreams (I too tried to start my own newspaper), and fear of noises in the dark. I love dogs though and always have.
The little white lies I told trying to fit in are endless!
When people say that neurodivergence didn’t exist in the past, or that autism has skyrocketed in the past 10 years, I will laugh and tell them to read this book! Nobody can read about Sheila and believe she is anything but a little autistic girl trying to figure out her place in the world.
Reading it in adulthood; deep in burnout, exhausted and in pain, brought me so much joy. It also inspired another grand idea… my memoir, which has been locked up and inaccessible in my head for so many years. I think it’s time. I thought of calling it “otherwise known as Lydia the great”, but I’ve settled on “otherwise known as Lyd the Kid”, my nickname in childhood gifted to me by a wonderful teacher who actually steered into my weirdness! The foreword will be all about Sheila and her greatness, and you Judy, the best children’s author in the world!
Thank you for seeing me, for the inspiration, and for all of the stories.
Best wishes,
Lydia Bernsmeier-Rullow
(40 and a half)
Manchester, England
I’m 40 years old, and I was raised on your YA novels. I’m autistic, and have adhd, and I’m currently struggling with burnout. Yesterday, I decided to revisit first chapter book I ever read - “Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great”.
I was probably 8 or 9 when I sat down with my mum to read it, and it quickly became clear that I was too impatient to listen to mum read (she didn’t even do the voices!) and so I read it alone, my first solo book without pictures! I remember loving it, and it opened the door to all of your other wonderful books, that I devoured voraciously over the next 10 years. All except “Forever”! I’d heard it was too mature, and I wasn’t about to break the rules!
My final foray with your stories was “Summer Sisters”, bought for me by my godmother when I was far too young, and read (through tears by the end) in 3 nights.
Over the years, I learned about periods from Margaret, body image from Deenie, toxic diet culture from Linda, and racism from Sally… oh and a few other things from Vix and Caitlin!
I wanted to get in touch with you because re-reading Sheila’s story (on audible, read by your good self) showed me who I always was. I am Sheila. Scared that I was doing everything wrong. Terrified to admit that I wasn’t an expert in something. An “interesting” person with weird feet! A know it all.
All those years ago, you gave me a portrait of myself, and I didn’t even know it.
I wasn’t diagnosed with adhd until I was 35, and I’m yet to be assessed for autism, but as I read about Sheila’s adventures in Tarrytown, I saw myself in every line. In particular the grand dreams (I too tried to start my own newspaper), and fear of noises in the dark. I love dogs though and always have.
The little white lies I told trying to fit in are endless!
When people say that neurodivergence didn’t exist in the past, or that autism has skyrocketed in the past 10 years, I will laugh and tell them to read this book! Nobody can read about Sheila and believe she is anything but a little autistic girl trying to figure out her place in the world.
Reading it in adulthood; deep in burnout, exhausted and in pain, brought me so much joy. It also inspired another grand idea… my memoir, which has been locked up and inaccessible in my head for so many years. I think it’s time. I thought of calling it “otherwise known as Lydia the great”, but I’ve settled on “otherwise known as Lyd the Kid”, my nickname in childhood gifted to me by a wonderful teacher who actually steered into my weirdness! The foreword will be all about Sheila and her greatness, and you Judy, the best children’s author in the world!
Thank you for seeing me, for the inspiration, and for all of the stories.
Best wishes,
Lydia Bernsmeier-Rullow
(40 and a half)
Manchester, England
Hi! I am Ilina. (age 7) I love the book TALES OF A FOURTH GRADE NOTHING! I like how in every chapter its a whole new story. For example I like the chapter DRIBBLE where Fudge swallows Peters turtle and Fudge gets loads of presents. But Peter gets a dog!
I have begun to write my first children's book series. What do you wish you had known when you first started?
Hey Judy -
Andy and Katie from WKZE radio here. We see that you’re going to be in New York mid May. We are the new owners of a very cool, very independent FM station smack dab in the center of the Hudson Valley. We were wondering if you’d like to come for a visit and convo on the air! Email me back at the above address if interested.
Regards (and longtime reader)
Andy Gladding
Andy and Katie from WKZE radio here. We see that you’re going to be in New York mid May. We are the new owners of a very cool, very independent FM station smack dab in the center of the Hudson Valley. We were wondering if you’d like to come for a visit and convo on the air! Email me back at the above address if interested.
Regards (and longtime reader)
Andy Gladding
While shopping in Dollar Tree, I rediscovered, “Are you there God, it’s me Margaret?” I bought it mostly for nostalgic purposes… and then one afternoon, I decided to pick it up and read a couple of chapters. I couldn’t put it down and wonderful memories came flooding back. Like Margaret, I often spoke to God. I was also an only child. I realize now what this book meant to me then and why it was so special, as I had quite a few things in common with Margaret. I was wondering what year it was based on… Was it based on the years when you were growing up or was the setting from the 70s-80s? I’m in my 50s and I can tell you that it’s brought me just as much joy as it did when I was a preteen myself. Thank you for sharing your wonderful gift with all of us. -K.
Dear Judy,
Could you please write a funny yet somewhat serious book about navigating your 40s.
Are you there God, it's me Perimenopause" would hit home to a lot of women.
This time in my life just feels awkward.
Could you please write a funny yet somewhat serious book about navigating your 40s.
Are you there God, it's me Perimenopause" would hit home to a lot of women.
This time in my life just feels awkward.
Hi Judy,
My name is Piper, I am in the fourth grade in Augusta,Ks. Our class just read Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing in class. I loved it. That inspired me to read a few other books you have written as well. This year we get to do something called a “wax museum” I picked you this year! I get to dress up and talk about your accomplishments and the many books you have written! My classmates and I all memorize a blip about whoever we pick and write reports and perform our skit in front of the school and our families. I hope the new book is going well and Florida is nice and sunny!
Love,
Piper
My name is Piper, I am in the fourth grade in Augusta,Ks. Our class just read Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing in class. I loved it. That inspired me to read a few other books you have written as well. This year we get to do something called a “wax museum” I picked you this year! I get to dress up and talk about your accomplishments and the many books you have written! My classmates and I all memorize a blip about whoever we pick and write reports and perform our skit in front of the school and our families. I hope the new book is going well and Florida is nice and sunny!
Love,
Piper
Judy,
Summer Sisters made me feel understood in a way no other book has. Thank you for putting into words, feelings I cannot myself about the love between female friends. This book will never leave me. Thank you for everything you've given me.
Much love.
Summer Sisters made me feel understood in a way no other book has. Thank you for putting into words, feelings I cannot myself about the love between female friends. This book will never leave me. Thank you for everything you've given me.
Much love.
Hi!!!!
Long time reader!!!
I wanted to say yiu should write a follow up to hello God, it's Margaret... dear God, it's Margaret...
Helping us gen X moms through the next change...menopause!!! Please think about one more for us!!!
Long time reader!!!
I wanted to say yiu should write a follow up to hello God, it's Margaret... dear God, it's Margaret...
Helping us gen X moms through the next change...menopause!!! Please think about one more for us!!!
Hello!
I've long been a fan of your books. I wanted to let you know that I was contacted by a TikTok account @JudyBlume0 who is claiming to be you. If this isn't official, you may want to contact TikTok about shutting it down.
Thanks for all the amazing stories over the years!
I've long been a fan of your books. I wanted to let you know that I was contacted by a TikTok account @JudyBlume0 who is claiming to be you. If this isn't official, you may want to contact TikTok about shutting it down.
Thanks for all the amazing stories over the years!
We just finished the whole Fudge series. We love your books so much. We would want you to write another Fudge book called Fudge Strikes Again. We loved listening to your books in the car on our roadtrip. Our mom read all the Fudge books when she was little. But not Double Fudge. We all read that one together for the first time this week. Thank you again!!!!!!!!!!
Dear Judy, Your books about Fudge crack me up every time I re-read them. I loved reading Shelia's book as well. The scenes in the Shelia book when she was taking swimming lessons were so realistic, I could relate so well. I think you are a wonderful voice in the world. The world is a better place because you contribute so much. Thank you for getting me through the years that I needed your books the most.
Gayle
Gayle
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