3:15PM Jess McGuire | I stumbled across an article for EW penned by Oscar winning wordsmith Diablo Cody the other day and I actually enjoy it very much, so I thought I would give you a “heads up”. That’s what you expect from me, right?
Moving on. Diablo has kindly taken the time to put together a very nice tribute to children’s book scribbler Judy Blume. As someone who read a heap of Blume’s work when I was growing up, I thoroughly enjoyed taking a trip down memory lane…
I grew up devouring the Blume canon at our woefully small public library. The covers were hazy illustrations that evoked Playtex bra ads from the ’70s; the pages had been worn pulpy-soft by a thousand juvenile thumbs. But the first book I read of Blume’s was not one of her infamous adolescent sagas. It was a kiddie story called Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, which nonetheless seemed so exotic to me it might as well have been a Macedonian travelogue.
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