“What I want is someone to tell me, ‘You’ll live through this.’ I thought you could be that person.”īlume, now 85, says that she is probably done writing, that the novel she published in 2015 was her last big book. “I’m not trying to get pity,” a typical 11-year-old wrote.
Ruth rolled into one.” In the 1980s, she received 2,000 letters every month from devoted readers.
The New York Daily News once referred to her as “Miss Lonelyhearts, Mister Rogers and Dr. Blume’s 29 books have sold more than 90 million copies. Who better to go through a bedbug scare with?įor more than 50 years, Blume has been a beloved and trusted guide to children who are baffled or terrified or elated by what is happening to them, and are trying to make sense of it, whether it has to do with friendship, love, sex, envy, sibling rivalry, breast size (too small, too large), religion, race, class, death, or dermatology. Maybe, on some level, I’d been seeking such reassurance when I emailed her in the first place. Here was Judy Blume, the author who gave us some of American literature’s most memorable first periods, wet dreams, and desperate preteen bargains with God, calmly and empathetically letting me know that an unwelcome bodily development was nothing to be ashamed of or frightened by-that it was, in fact, something that had happened to her body too. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice.Amy-When I am bitten by No-See-Ums (so small you can’t even see them and you were eating on your balcony in the evening)-I get a reaction, very itchy and the bites get very red and big. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements.
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