February 12, 1938 in Elizabeth, New Jersey is the birth date of Judy Blume, American author of children and young adult books.
February 12, 1938 in Elizabeth, New Jersey is the birth date of Judy Blume, American author of children and young adult books.
Judy’s mom was a homemaker and her father was a dentist.
She had a brother five years older than her.
Judy loved to read and spent her childhood making up stories in her head.
Inn 1961, she graduated from New York University with a degree in Education.
While in college she met her husband, John Blume. They married in 1959 and had two children.
Judy began writing while her kids were preschoolers and published her first book, “The One in the Middle is the Green Kangaroo” in 1969.
In 1975, Judy and John divorced and she married twice after that.
Henryetta Public Library has all of the following books by Judy: (JF) Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret; Cool Zone with the Pain and the Great One; Friend or Fiend? with the Pain & the Great One; Going, Going, Gone! with the Pain & the Great One; Soupy Saturdays with the Pain & the Great One and (NF) Letters to Judy: What Your Kids Wish They Could Tell You.
February 10 is Umbrella Day and February 11 is Inventors’ Day.
Books added to our shelves this past week include: (B-2 Holiday) Trick or Treat in Oklahoma by Eric James; (JF) The Tyrant’s Tomb by Rick Riordan and (JNF) Synonyms and Antonyms by Ann Heinrichs.
Enjoy a good book when you can’t do anything outdoors because of the weather.
