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Dear Judy Blume,
My class just finished Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing and I LOVED it so much. My brother gave me some of the other books. I hope they will be good and I bet they will be.

Your new fan,
Kara

Dear Judy Blume,
My class just finished reading The Tales of a Forth Grade Nothing, I LOVED it. One of my favorite parts was when Fudge thought he could fly and jumped off the jungle jim. I also felt bad for Peter when his parents only were paying attention to Fudge when he swallowed Dribble, but then felt better for him because Peter got a puppy.

From your new fan,
Bailey

Dear Judy Blume,
I'm in 4th grade and my class just finished your book Tales Of A Fourth Grade Nothing. It was hilarious! My favorite part was when Fudge was in the movie theater and they were watching Life of a bear. Fudge wanted to touch the bear.
From,
Illy

Dear Ms. Blume,
I am a 50-year-old mother, wife, and teacher. But I was also at one time a preteen/teen who became an avid reader and sometime writer because of you. Ask my husband or kids who I consider my greatest role model (besides my mother), and they will tell you without question it is you.
I hope someday to come to your bookstore in Key West and run into you.
Thank you for all that you have done for girls and young women. You are such an inspiration.
Sincerely,
Erin Caouette

P.S. My daughter and I recently watched the Margaret movie. She is obsessed with puberty and getting her period, and it helped her to understand it all a bit better. Thank you!

Dear Judy,
I was reminded of your influence on my daughter's career, when she recently was awarded a Tin House Residency for Writers in Portland, OR...When my daughter was in second grade, her English teacher recommended that she be thrown out of school for reading "lewd and lascivious' material to girls in the school's lavatory...The book was 'Are You There God, It's Me Margaret.' She was later dismissed from her teaching position for this action...In second grade, my daughter, who reads with a very soothing voice and, delighted in reading to other children...She won her first writing award at age 04 while a full-time kindergarten student...She loved your books...It would mean a great deal to me if you would communicate with her - name is Catherine J, cell phone: xxx...Respectfully, Peggy

How about a book on menopause?
Your girls from the 70s are now in their 50s and since you got them through puberty you could help them through menopause now.

Hello! We Love your books! We just read The Pain and the Great One and we enjoyed it and can definitely relate to it! Thank you for sharing your imagination with us! Do you have any new ideas for a book? If not, we would love to share some of ours.
P.S. What is your favorite book you've written?

My name is Gracie King. I am 16.5 years old. My mom and I just finished reading the “Who is Judy Blume” book. We are going to read some of your books soon.

Dear Judy,
I began reading your books in the 5th grade when I started puberty. it was a very weird time of my life but a family friend offered to let me borrow her copy of your book, ‘Are you there god? it’s me, Margret’ and it definitely helped me understand that it was normal. as i’m now growing up and changing a lot more your book ‘Forever…’ has definitely helped me. Kathrine’s relationship with Michael shows that there is a lot to expect and experience when you fall in love. Some of your other books have also helped me through things like change and growing up, but those two were the most impactful. I just really would like to thank you and all of your amazing work throughout the years for helping grow into the person I will become one day. Thank you Judy!
Sincerely, Delaney

Audrey, my 10 year old daughter absolutely loves the film adaptation of Are you there God? It's me, Margaret. I've recently started reading her the book at bedtime and she also loves the written story (and all the details and differences to the film.) She sent me this audio note to transcribe...
Since you have written "Are you there God? It's me, Margaret." in the 1970s, maybe you should write one in nowadays (in the present day). It would be very interesting to see the differences and I really like the one you did in the 1970s. I really enjoyed watching it and I really wanna see a nowadays version to see the differences and I really like the film and I watch it all the time every day.
I've watched the film about like 30 times. On a usual daily basis I watched it like two times. Not all the time but most of the time and I really enjoy it a lot. It's very interesting and I'm the same age as Margaret well similar age because I'm 10 years old soon going to turn 11. I really love it so so much and it's so interesting.
My favourite character is probably Margaret and Nancy because they have a lot of personality. So hopefully you enjoyed my message. Thank you from Audrey. 

So it would be pretty nice if you did an hour version one and if maybe I could be in it, I don't have to, but it would be really nice and really fun thank you.

Hello, Dad again. Thank you for your wonderful story and for the way it communicates with my daughter's experience. (And mine, actually. I spent most of the scene in the film where Margaret gets angry with God in floods of tears having a flashback to my own teenage years).