![]() ![]() I turned on the audiobook on a road trip one day, and I hadn’t thought about the books really over all those years and suddenly I’m hearing Judy’s voice read the audiobook. ![]() I decided to introduce them to Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing. So it was a very safe, comforting and also fun place to live as a book reader, and I flash forward 25 years and I have kids. ![]() ![]() There are kids who want their periods, and then there’s a character in the book who like has to wear a bra when she’s in third grade. I remember reading Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret and realizing there are kids who want this. I got my period when I was 10, before my older sister got hers. I think for me, Judy was someone who taught you about things that no one else was talking about and it made me feel OK even when I felt like whatever I was going through was new or different. Leah and I joke I was an early bloomer, and she was a late bloomer in many ways. DEADLINE: I have to ask, where you Judy Blume readers growing up?ĭAVINA PARDO: I was a Judy Blume reader as a kid. ![]()
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