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I love your books Judy I’ve read tales of a fourth grade nothing and Super fudge and I’m going to read fudge -a -mania, double fudge, and also known as Sheila The great. I’m so excited to read the books.They’re so funny. I love them all! Tales of a fourth grade nothing is one of my favorites. I wish you made more fudge books. i’m nine and I love your books.I’m so glad you wrote them, so thank you for writing the books.
Me and I just saw the new are you there god it's me Margaret movie and loved it. The movie was so good I would watch it again. Me and my friends read the book together and I loved that I could almost predict what would happen. Judy is such a talented author and I love her books so so much.
Thank you for your wonderful books! As a 52 year old mom, I want you to know what a profound impact your books had on my very sad & lonely childhood. I was bullied beyond belief due to my ethnicity. I hated school and began to hate who I was. Your books made me cry, laugh and provided an escape for me. As a teacher, I now read Tales to my students. Thank you Judy.
Hello miss Judy Blume I love your books and I went to see your new movie hey god it's me Margaret and A Fourth Grade Nothing! I hope you are having an amazing day/week.
Hi Judy,
I really wish you would write a book on "the change" or as I call it puberty 2.0. I am 53 and grew up with your books and like the other topics you wrote on nobody really talks about peri-menopause and menopause.
I really wish you would write a book on "the change" or as I call it puberty 2.0. I am 53 and grew up with your books and like the other topics you wrote on nobody really talks about peri-menopause and menopause.
i love your books
I've loved to read since I learned how to do so. I was 4 years old and deciphered the secrets of phonemes and such from memorizing the words of Dr. Seuss and examining the texts. By second grade I had consumed most of your books as well of most of the works of Beverly Cleary. Roald Dahl was a favorite as well, but he has proven to be a poor role model in unfortunate ways.I recently heard an interview with you on NPR and started to think about how you led to my love of great authors like Kurt Vonnegut. I think of Vonnegut as the Mark Twain of our time. I also think you and Cleary are great authors in the same vein.
Dear Judy, I have just turned 50 years old and your books were a guiding light throughout my childhood. I loved the movie rendition of Are You There God? My friends and I think it would be wonderful if you could write the menopause version. We would love to read it because it helps to laugh and find the humor in everything. Thank you again for writing these wonderful books
Judy! Mrs.Judy! I am watching your Master class now on masterclass.com
Thank you so much for everything you do! I am from Russia and I live here in Unites States 8 years. I love to read and write since I was a child. I am 42 now. I can't believe how time flies. You and me have so much in common. You are wonderful teacher. I wish I could meet you in person one day. Thos is would be so magical.I hope I can find you on Key West on literacy seminar. I really hope I can make it there, because it's kind of pricey for me right now. But let's see how my writing will go. You know what I mean. But I defcan visit your book store on Key West. When usually you are visiting your book store? I wish you could be my mentor on a long term if its possible. I wish you lots of wonderful mornings, days and evenings in your life. Your new friend, Annie.
Thank you so much for everything you do! I am from Russia and I live here in Unites States 8 years. I love to read and write since I was a child. I am 42 now. I can't believe how time flies. You and me have so much in common. You are wonderful teacher. I wish I could meet you in person one day. Thos is would be so magical.I hope I can find you on Key West on literacy seminar. I really hope I can make it there, because it's kind of pricey for me right now. But let's see how my writing will go. You know what I mean. But I defcan visit your book store on Key West. When usually you are visiting your book store? I wish you could be my mentor on a long term if its possible. I wish you lots of wonderful mornings, days and evenings in your life. Your new friend, Annie.
This past weekend - Mother's Day Weekend 2023 was tough. At 52 perspective is definitely an advantage to the tough pre-teen and teenage years when I first read your books. This past year has held somewhat unexpected hurdles - daughter getting married, another beginning college, gregarious boy / girl 11 yr old twins into all kinds of shenanigans... husband's health problems (toe amputation - heart surgery and more). As a career mother running 2 hotels in a small town when my mother asked me to come to a fundraiser in Tupelo, Mississippi for MS Crossroads Ranch (non-profit residential campus for high functioning adult men with brain injuries) where my younger brother has lived for just over a year, I dropped all and went with 3 of my 4 kids, my husband and new son-in-law. Family is difficult at any age - but while this was a tough weekend the conversations of the hot topic of the release of your movie was a refreshing high note. I loved my eldest, Daisye Byrd telling Stella Pearl about your books. Stella Pearl loves graphic novels and while she had heard of other friends reading your books had been reluctant to do so. Our 1970's parenting style does not require specific books - but encourages reading and engaging with life. While I had suggested Stella Pearl read Margaret before going to the movie, that was not her desire till she had the most engaging conversation with Daisye Byrd. I loved hearing Daisye talk of her love of your books - of how you really understood people Stella and Dexter's age - and could write as if you were 11 or 12 even as an adult. Stella asked me to order your book - somehow I think Daisye Byrd has my original one. I am so thankful I have girls who can also enjoy your books. And - cannot wait for the book to arrive so SP can read and I can re-read and then watch the movie. Thank you for writing - and now for sharing via the movie. I cannot wait to visit your bookstore this summer when I visit Key West! Anna Katherine Long Graham
Hi Judy,
I watched Margaret twice over the weekend. First with a friend I met on the first day of kindergarten and the second time with my mom. This book means so much to me and I'm so glad it was beautifully made for the big screen.
I didn't have the same struggles as Margaret, as I was more like the Laura Danker of my school. I was the early bloomer with acne, a bra, and an awful period before I turned 10.
Thank you for continuing to be a voice of girls and women and for normalizing menstruation and puberty.
I watched Margaret twice over the weekend. First with a friend I met on the first day of kindergarten and the second time with my mom. This book means so much to me and I'm so glad it was beautifully made for the big screen.
I didn't have the same struggles as Margaret, as I was more like the Laura Danker of my school. I was the early bloomer with acne, a bra, and an awful period before I turned 10.
Thank you for continuing to be a voice of girls and women and for normalizing menstruation and puberty.
Dear Judy-
I watched your documentary and
loved you immediately. I could relate to the emotion you showed for your father. I also loved my father, for me the man walked on water, I miss him so much, he has been gone for over 32 years. I thought I was the only one who had these feelings of extreme emotion, just thinking of him.Thank you, thank you, you get it.
I watched your documentary and
loved you immediately. I could relate to the emotion you showed for your father. I also loved my father, for me the man walked on water, I miss him so much, he has been gone for over 32 years. I thought I was the only one who had these feelings of extreme emotion, just thinking of him.Thank you, thank you, you get it.
I need an update on the summer sisters hulu limited series!! I am dying for this. Please please tell me it's still happening
Dear Judy, I was recently at a tiny independent book store in Grand Marais MN with my mother. The storekeep asked me to name a book that changed my life and without hesitation I said "Margret!" When the storekeep asked my mom she said the exact same. My mom and I read that book together 3 times throughout my childhood. My mother said she always knew if she could read your books outloud to me she would survive my teen years. In turn, I said I always knew that if I could hear my mom read those words I could talk to her about anything. No matter how difficult. Turns out, 40 years later, we were both right!!! Thanks for changing the trajectory of my relationship with my mom and my childhood. We adore you.
Well, I never thought I would get the chance to write you! But I want to tell you “thank you”, for your books, especially Deenie, Are You There God, and Forever. They got me through a really rough adolescence in the late 70s- early 80s. It warms my heart to know that you’ve touched so many lives in a positive way! Thank you for sharing your stories with us!
I simply wanted to wish you a Happy Mother's Day, Judy. I hope you know that, in a way, you were a mother-figure to many of us readers who are now in our 50's. Thank you for being there for us when we needed a mother!
P.S. - I just finished your documentary and I am convinced that you are an angel sent from the heavens!
P.S. - I just finished your documentary and I am convinced that you are an angel sent from the heavens!
Dear Judy,
I loved your books in the Early 90s loved and related to Hello god it's Me, Margret; when I was 14, I made up a story about losing my virginity to my friends because I had read an article about how to test your friends to see how True of friendship they had with me. They failed, sadly 😆 lol. In my 20s, I lived in a small casino town and was bullied and sex Shamed. I couldn't do anything without someone being negative about my clothes or my way of talking to a new guy Every weekend. letting you know I married someone 29 years older than me. It was always reading your books that pulled me out of my troubles and got me through life Thank you Judy for helping me realise there is nothing wrong with me.
I loved your books in the Early 90s loved and related to Hello god it's Me, Margret; when I was 14, I made up a story about losing my virginity to my friends because I had read an article about how to test your friends to see how True of friendship they had with me. They failed, sadly 😆 lol. In my 20s, I lived in a small casino town and was bullied and sex Shamed. I couldn't do anything without someone being negative about my clothes or my way of talking to a new guy Every weekend. letting you know I married someone 29 years older than me. It was always reading your books that pulled me out of my troubles and got me through life Thank you Judy for helping me realise there is nothing wrong with me.
I'm a blind reader, 75, and only recently discovered your books. That was due to a reference to you and your stories in another novel. Fortunately, the CELA digital library service in Canada had many of your titles available for download in MP3 format. I just wish I'd been able to read these kind of stories back when I was thirteen, in the dark ages of 1950-1965...
Grin.
Love your frank, yet delicate way of telling that girls also masturbate. Back when I was thirteen, and using hand lotion to reach climax, I sublimated the guilt and enjoyed the result.
I learned to read at the age of five, and, became captivated by the sciences. Grew up on military bases with jet aircraft and radar, so naturally, became fascinated with technology. Became the first totally blind student taking majors science at the University of British Columbia. Now, all that is past, and I can settle into enjoying your books and gleaning some understanding of my own adolescent sexual confusion.
Regards, Brian
Grin.
Love your frank, yet delicate way of telling that girls also masturbate. Back when I was thirteen, and using hand lotion to reach climax, I sublimated the guilt and enjoyed the result.
I learned to read at the age of five, and, became captivated by the sciences. Grew up on military bases with jet aircraft and radar, so naturally, became fascinated with technology. Became the first totally blind student taking majors science at the University of British Columbia. Now, all that is past, and I can settle into enjoying your books and gleaning some understanding of my own adolescent sexual confusion.
Regards, Brian
Dear Judy,
As a poet I write what is real to me. Thankfully your books have always provided me with the thought that I'd be alright in life. As a child of abuse I've found that as an adult that I'm a worthy human being that would and did find love and understanding in life. Tiger eyes is the one book of yours that has touched me the most. My mother died very young of ms and I'll never forget that in her final moment with me that she could cry and I never felt so alone for so many years afterwards.
Also thank you for your stand on banned books. The other author who helped shape my life is m.e. kerr whom shared with me that she was once told that to not talk about her lgbtq themed books at a school she was asked to speak at.
By the way I loved the amazon documentary judy blume forever.
As a poet I write what is real to me. Thankfully your books have always provided me with the thought that I'd be alright in life. As a child of abuse I've found that as an adult that I'm a worthy human being that would and did find love and understanding in life. Tiger eyes is the one book of yours that has touched me the most. My mother died very young of ms and I'll never forget that in her final moment with me that she could cry and I never felt so alone for so many years afterwards.
Also thank you for your stand on banned books. The other author who helped shape my life is m.e. kerr whom shared with me that she was once told that to not talk about her lgbtq themed books at a school she was asked to speak at.
By the way I loved the amazon documentary judy blume forever.
Hi Judy-
I am a now 49 year old very very longtime fan! I grew up reading all of your books..they were my childhood ❤️…I just watched your documentary and it really got me thinking back to when I was 12, reaching puberty in my very socially tough Long Island town. I got my period in September of 7th grade. Instead of excited, I was traumatized. I didn’t know of any of my friends who had gotten it yet, no one talked about it. So in my mind, no one did get it! I tried my best to just hide it, for what felt like forever. All thru 7th grade all of my friends swore they hadn’t gotten it yet-and I believed them-I felt so alone!
Then I went to overnight camp, and low & behold all my friends there had gotten it-thank god! When I returned home after the summer though, my home friends still swore, all of them, that they hadn’t gotten it? So I continued hiding it, it was awful!
Finally at the end of eighth grade, one girl announced that she got it…and after that all the girls followed suit…what an incredible coincidence I thought to myself. Naive 13 year old me truly believed they had all gotten it at the same time & I was some kind of freak!!!
This whole experience did truly traumatize me…to this day I still think about it-I’d still love to know when they all “really” got their periods and why “we” all collectively decided it was so taboo.
Steph
I am a now 49 year old very very longtime fan! I grew up reading all of your books..they were my childhood ❤️…I just watched your documentary and it really got me thinking back to when I was 12, reaching puberty in my very socially tough Long Island town. I got my period in September of 7th grade. Instead of excited, I was traumatized. I didn’t know of any of my friends who had gotten it yet, no one talked about it. So in my mind, no one did get it! I tried my best to just hide it, for what felt like forever. All thru 7th grade all of my friends swore they hadn’t gotten it yet-and I believed them-I felt so alone!
Then I went to overnight camp, and low & behold all my friends there had gotten it-thank god! When I returned home after the summer though, my home friends still swore, all of them, that they hadn’t gotten it? So I continued hiding it, it was awful!
Finally at the end of eighth grade, one girl announced that she got it…and after that all the girls followed suit…what an incredible coincidence I thought to myself. Naive 13 year old me truly believed they had all gotten it at the same time & I was some kind of freak!!!
This whole experience did truly traumatize me…to this day I still think about it-I’d still love to know when they all “really” got their periods and why “we” all collectively decided it was so taboo.
Steph
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