Analytical Essay “First-time author Judy Blume, a New Jersey housewife with two small children, would have laughed if you told her in 1969 that her books would transform an industry, influence more girls than Laura Ingalls Wilder, and sell 80 million copies” (Winer). Judy Blume (born Judith Sussman) was born on February 12, 1938, in Elizabeth, New Jersey. She was the second child of Esther and Rudolph Sussman. Blume attended an all-girls' High School but unfortunately, she contracted mononeucleosis and had leave Boston University after just two weeks. She continued her education at New York University, where she met John Blume. They were married in 1959, shortly after her father died. She graduated with a B.S. in education in 1961 (Editors).
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Blume sought to get her creative juices flowing by taking a writing course at NYU. Following years of rejections, she became a first-time author when her illustrated children's book The One in the Middle Is the Green Kangaroo was published in 1969. In an interniew with Linda Richards of January Magazine, when asked if she illustrated The One in the Middle Is the Green Kangaroo? Blume replied, “No. I tried to illustrate my first efforts but I'm totally not an illustrator so it was sort of a joke. But I have kept them in the closet. Colored them. With little colored pencils. Fastened them with little brass fasteners like I was still in school. I told my children that if they try to publish them after I die I will come back and haunt them” (Richards). Blume’s first novel, Iggie's House is about an African-American family that relocates to a white neighborhood but it was Blume's following book, Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret, that got her …show more content…
It gives the young protagonists the chance to communicate almost directly to the audience, pulling the reader into a conversation as they attempt to know the world as a sociocultural experience they have in common. Essentially, Blume’s novels work as a substitute for parents who may be unprepared to talk about delicate issues with their children. She recalled that when she was younger, she tried to talk about topics that were taboo, such as menstruation, with her father but it was difficult and awkward. Blume’s experiences as a child taught her that learned more when she was with her friends or just by examining her own thoughts and feelings; her characters did the
Blume sought to get her creative juices flowing by taking a writing course at NYU. Following years of rejections, she became a first-time author when her illustrated children's book The One in the Middle Is the Green Kangaroo was published in 1969. In an interniew with Linda Richards of January Magazine, when asked if she illustrated The One in the Middle Is the Green Kangaroo? Blume replied, “No. I tried to illustrate my first efforts but I'm totally not an illustrator so it was sort of a joke. But I have kept them in the closet. Colored them. With little colored pencils. Fastened them with little brass fasteners like I was still in school. I told my children that if they try to publish them after I die I will come back and haunt them” (Richards). Blume’s first novel, Iggie's House is about an African-American family that relocates to a white neighborhood but it was Blume's following book, Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret, that got her …show more content…
It gives the young protagonists the chance to communicate almost directly to the audience, pulling the reader into a conversation as they attempt to know the world as a sociocultural experience they have in common. Essentially, Blume’s novels work as a substitute for parents who may be unprepared to talk about delicate issues with their children. She recalled that when she was younger, she tried to talk about topics that were taboo, such as menstruation, with her father but it was difficult and awkward. Blume’s experiences as a child taught her that learned more when she was with her friends or just by examining her own thoughts and feelings; her characters did the