Look who's back!? After a long podcast break, I'm back with regularly scheduled Turning Back the Pages episodes. To get us started, we're talking all things Judy Blume!
Who is the great Judy Blume, and what makes her so great? Today, I talk through Judy's life and her work and what makes her work worth rereading years later.
Next week, author and illustrator Selina Alko will join me to continue the conversation about Judy Blume as we specifically talk about the book Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herself, Judy's semi-autobiographical novel.
Join me on Substack for more stories and thoughts on TBTP's authors of the month. This week, I'm sharing the story of how the 6th grade girls at my school got around a Judy Blume book ban.
This episode would not have been possible without the work of Rachelle Bergstein and Mark Oppenheimer's biographies about Judy.
Clips of Judy Blume's interview are from Temple University's Profiles in Literature
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