Judy Blume: Our Favorite Author

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Judy Blume Our Favorite Author

• By Sally Bryan and John Doe

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Personal Information

• Judy Blume was born in Elizabeth, NJ on February
  12, 1938.
• She Graduated from New York University in 1961.

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Family

• Judy Blumes Husband is a writer of non-fiction
  books.
• She has three grown children and one grandchild,
  whose first word was book.

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Books by Judy Blume

• Judy Blume has written over 20 books for
  children. Her first book was a picture book
  called The one in the Middle is the Green
  Kangaroo. Other books by Blume include
• Freckle Juice
• Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
• Superfudge
• Fudge-a-mania
• Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great
• Double Fudge

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Characters

• Fudge Fudge is one the most loved characters in
  all of Judy Blumes work. Fudge is not a real
  person, but she based him on her son when he was
  in pre-school.
• The Pain and the Great One are really Judys son
  and daughter when they were six and eight years
  old.
• Shiela Tubman was scared of dogs, the dark and
  thunderstorms just like Judy was when she was a
  child.

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Being A Writer

• Blume gets her ideas from everywhere memories
  of her life, things that happened to her
  children, things she sees and hears and mostly
  from her imagination.
• All of Blumes books start on a day that
  something different happens. For example,
  Superfudge started on the day Peter found out his
  parents were having another baby.
• It takes Judy Blume about one year to write a
  book from beginning to end.

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Awards

• Are You there God? Its Me Margaret won the
  Outstanding Book of the Year by the New York
  Times in 1970.
• Freckle Juice won the Michigan Young Readers
  Award in 1980.
• Fudge-a-mania won the Michigan Readers Choice
  Award in 1993.

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Why Judy Blume is our favorite author

• Judys books are funny and entertaining.
• Her characters face many of the same situations
  that we face everyday.
• When we read her books its like we are a part of
  the story.

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Learn more about Judy Blume
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Resources

• Photos
• www.judyblume.com/photos.html
• Research
• www.judyblume.com/menu-main.html
• www.judyblume.com/articles/oppenheimer.html