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Fans young and old will laugh out loud at the irrepressible wit of Peter Hatcher, the hilarious antics of mischievous Fudge, and the unbreakable confidence of know-it-all Sheila Tubman in Judy Blume's five Fudge books, Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great, Superfudge, Fudge-a-Mania, and Double Fudge. Now all packaged together for the very first time, this collection of Fudge books will please lifelong fans and entice a whole new generation of Blume readers.
作者簡介
Name: Judy Blume Biography Before Judy Blume, there may have been a handful of books that spoke to issues teens could identify with; but very few were getting down to nitty-gritty stuff like menstruation, masturbation, parents divorcing, being half-Jewish, or deciding to have sex. Now, these were some issues that adolescents could dig into, and Blume s ability to address them realistically and responsibly has made her one of the most popular and most banned authors for young adults. Are You There God? It s Me, Margaret, published in 1970, was Blume s third book and the one that established her fan base. Drawing on some of the same things she faced as a sixth grader growing up in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Blume created a sympathetic, first-person portrait of a girl whose family moves to the suburbs as she struggles with puberty and religion. In subsequent classics such as Then Again, Maybe I Won t, Deenie, Blubber, and Tiger Eyes, Blume wrote about the pain of being different, falling in love, and figuring out one's identity. Usually written in a confessional/diary style, Blume s books feel like letters from friends who just happen to be going through a very interesting version of the same tortures suffered by their audience. Blume has also accumulated a great following among the 12-and-under set with her Fudge series, centering on the lives of preteen Peter Hatcher and his hilariously troublesome younger brother, Farley (a.k.a. Fudge). Blume s books in this category are particularly adept at portraying the travails of siblings, making both sides sympathetic. Her 2002 entry, Double Fudge, takes a somewhat surreal turn, providing the Hatchers with a doppelganger of Fudge when they meet some distant relatives on a trip. Blume has also had success writing for adults, again applying her ability to turn some of her own sensations into compelling stories. Wifey in 1978 was the raunchy chronicle of a bored suburban housewife s infidelities, both real and imagined. She followed this up five years later with Smart Women, a novel about friendship between two divorced women living in Colorado; and 1998 s Summer Sisters, also about two female friends. Blume has said she continually struggles with her writing, often sure that each book will be the last, that she ll never get another idea. She keeps proving herself wrong with more than 20 books to her credit; hopefully she will continue to do so. read more Name: Judy Blume Current Home: New York's Upper East Side, Key West, and Martha's Vineyard Date of Birth: February 12, 1938 Place of Birth: Elizabeth, New Jersey Education: B.S. in education, New York University, 1961 Awards: Margaret A. Edwards Award for Lifetime Achievement from the American Library Association, 1996 *Judy Blume'sofficial web site Biography Before Judy Blume, there may have been a handful of books that spoke to issues teens could identify with; but very few were getting down to nitty-gritty stuff like menstruation, masturbation, parents divorcing, being half-Jewish, or deciding to have sex. Now, these were some issues that adolescents could dig into, and Blume s ability to address them realistically and responsibly has made her one of the most popular and most banned authors for young adults. Are You There God? It s Me, Margaret, published in 1970, was Blume s third book and the one that established her fan base. Drawing on some of the same things she faced as a sixth grader growing up in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Blume created a sympathetic, first-person portrait of a girl whose family moves to the suburbs as she struggles with puberty and religion. In subsequent classics such as Then Again, Maybe I Won t, Deenie, Blubber, and Tiger Eyes, Blume wrote about the pain of being different, falling in love, and figuring out one's identity. Usually written in a confessional/diary style, Blume s books feel like letters from friends who just happen to be going through a very interesting version of the same tortures suffered by their audience. Blume has also accumulated a great following among the 12-and-under set with her Fudge series, centering on the lives of preteen Peter Hatcher and his hilariously troublesome younger brother, Farley (a.k.a. Fudge). Blume s books in this category are particularly adept at portraying the travails of siblings, making both sides sympathetic. Her 2002 entry, Double Fudge, takes a somewhat surreal turn, providing the Hatchers with a doppelganger of Fudge when they meet some distant relatives on a trip. Blume has also had success writing for adults, again applying her ability to turn some of her own sensations into compelling stories. Wifey in 1978 was the raunchy chronicle of a bored suburban housewife s infidelities, both real and imagined. She followed this up five years later with Smart Women, a novel about friendship between two divorced women living in Colorado; and 1998 s Summer Sisters, also about two female friends. Blume has said she continually struggles with her writing, often sure that each book will be the last, that she ll never get another idea. She keeps proving herself wrong with more than 20 books to her credit; hopefully she will continue to do so. Good To Know Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing was inspired by an article given to Blume by her babysitter about a toddler who swallowed a small pet turtle. She wrote a picture book introducing Fudge (based on her own then-toddler son), the turtle, and older brother Peter; but it was rejected. A few years later, E. P. Dutton editor Ann Durell suggested that Blume turn the story into a longer book about the Hatcher family. Blume did, and the Fudge legacy was born. Blume is not an author without conflict about her station in life. She says on her web site that, as part of her "fantasy about having a regular job," she has a morning routine that involves getting fully dressed and starting at 9 a.m. She has also getting out of writing altogether."After I had written more than ten books I thought seriously about quitting," she writes. "I felt I couldn't take the loneliness anymore. I thought I would rather be anything but a writer. But I've finally come to appreciate the freedom of writing. I accept the fact that it's hard and solitary work." Blume's book about divorce, It's Not the End of the World, proved ultimately to be closer to her own experience than she originally imagined. Her own marriage was in trouble at the time, but she couldn't quite face it. "In the hope that it would get better I dedicated this book to my husband," she writes in an essay. "But a few years later, we, too, divorced. It was hard on all of us, more painful than I could have imagined, but somehow we muddled through and it wasn't the end of any of our worlds, though on some days it might have felt like it." Her most autobiographical book is Starring Sally J. Friedman as Herself, says Blume. "Sally is the kind of kid I was at ten," Blume says on her web site. Blume keeps setting Fudge aside, readers keep bringing him back. The sequel Superfudge was written after tons of fans wrote in asking for more of Farley Hatcher; again more begging led to Fudge-a-Mania ten years later. Blume planned never to write about Fudge again, but grandson Elliott was a persistent pesterer (just like Fudge), and got his way with 2002's Double Fudge. Feature Interviews From the September/October 2002 issue of Book magazine When Judy Blume wrote Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, her first book in the Fudge series, in 1972, she was a 34-year-old fledgling author with two young children. Thirty years later, Fudge, the tempestuous toddler based on Blume's son, is only a couple of years older -- while Blume is a grandmother with a household name. This time around, Blume says, she wrote about Fudge for her daughter's 10-year-old son, Elliot, who has been begging her for another Fudge book since he was seven. She made him work for Double Fudge by taking him to the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. There, they were initiated into the unofficial Panda Poop Club, which entails holding and sniffing the poop of a genuine panda. "It was so totally pleasant," she says. "It just looked like a poop, but it smells like grass." Of course, this is necessary research -- Double Fudge includes a panda poop scene -- for an author who has always displayed a knack for knowing exactly what kids are interested in. (The new book has a couple of other scenes that play to a toddler's affection for discussing bathroom habits. "They love it!" she says.) Anyone who has ever read anything by Blume -- including Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret; Forever; Blubber; and Deenie -- knows she doesn't shy away from topics that make most adults uncomfortable. It's not that she goes for shock value; she just writes the truth about taboo subjects. She's written about menstruation, masturbation and teenage sex. She's fought censorship along the way, but the truth has paid off: Blume's books have sold more than 75 million copies and have been translated into more than 20 languages. Born and raised in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Judy Sussman attended New York University, where she earned a degree in education and married a young lawyer, John Blume, her junior year. Soon thereafter, she had two children: a girl, Randy, in 1961, and a boy, Larry, in 1964. After enrolling in a writing class at NYU, the then-housewife wrote a few magazine articles before publishing her first book, The One in the Middle Is the Green Kangaroo, in 1969. Although she wrote an edgy teen book dealing with racism in 1970 (Iggie's House), it wasn't until the publication of Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret later that year that her name began to register among readers and critics. "I think that's the one that made me think I really am a writer," she says. Although that book, about a girl's struggle with puberty, has become something of a bible for girls, Blume says she never meant for it to be anything but a fictional chronicle of her own experiences. "I was really writing about the kind of kid I was in sixth grade, the late developer." Over the years, Blume published many more books for children and teens, as well as several for adults. Three years after she divorced her husband in 1975, she wrote her first adult book, Wifey, about a frustrated young housewife. (In 1987 she got remarried to George Cooper, a nonfiction writer.) In 1998 she published Summer Sisters, a novel about a long-standing friendship between childhood friends. Soon after she told Cooper that Summer Sisters would "be the end of a wonderful career," the book shot to the top of bestseller lists. In her lush Upper East Side penthouse (her third home in addition to ones in Key West and Martha's Vineyard), the lithe Blume talks about her upcoming Fudge tour. She says her publicist asked her to send a video of herself to the bookstores. "And I said, 'What -- to show them I'm still living? So people won't recoil in horror from looking at me?' Please. It's so weird, this age thing," she says. "You can write until you drop." She's not sure she will, though. "I always say every book is my last. It's like having a baby," Blume says. "But two years later, you're thinking, 'I can do this again.' "
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艾米莉的秘密日記:夏日裏的成長、友誼與小小的冒險 作者: 莎拉·詹寜斯 (Sarah Jennings) 裝幀: 平裝 適閤年齡: 8歲及以上讀者 --- 簡介: 在那個陽光總是比彆處來得更熱烈、蟬鳴聲聲不絕於耳的夏天,十歲的艾米莉·卡特琳(Emily Carter)發現自己正站在一個充滿未知與挑戰的十字路口。她不是在處理什麼驚天動地的危機,而是在處理那些隻屬於“即將進入高年級的小大人”的煩惱:友誼的微妙變化、對未知事物的強烈好奇心,以及如何在一個總是把她當成“小妹妹”的傢庭中,爭取到屬於自己的獨立空間。 《艾米莉的秘密日記》並非聚焦於那些宏大的史詩故事,而是深入描繪瞭童年嚮少年過渡時期,那些細微卻又影響深遠的內心波動。故事圍繞著艾米莉那本鎖著的小小日記本展開,這本日記成瞭她觀察、記錄和思考一切的“安全港灣”。 第一部分:秘密基地的建立與夏日序麯 故事開始於一個尋常的六月。艾米莉最好的朋友,總是充滿活力的麥剋斯(Max),突然宣布他要搬去另一個城市過暑假,這讓艾米莉感到瞭強烈的被拋棄感。為瞭應對這種突如其來的分離焦慮,艾米莉決定在後院那棵老橡樹的樹屋裏,建立一個“絕對秘密”的基地。她用收集來的舊布料、閃閃發光的鵝卵石,以及從奶奶那裏“藉來”的一些古董小玩意兒,將樹屋裝飾成一個充滿奇思妙想的避難所。 然而,這個秘密基地很快就麵臨瞭第一個考驗:新搬來的鄰居,一個略顯神秘、總是戴著一副oversize太陽鏡的女孩——莉拉(Lila)。莉拉看起來比艾米莉成熟幾歲,舉止間帶著一種成年人的冷靜。艾米莉最初對她充滿戒心,認為莉拉是來侵占她的夏日領土的。 日記本的第一頁記錄瞭這種復雜的感受:“今天我畫瞭一個迷宮,上麵寫著‘危險,請勿靠近’。莉拉就是那個迷宮裏的守衛,我不知道她要守護什麼,但我確定那不是我能進去的寶藏。” 第二部分:圖書館的謎團與老地圖 為瞭打發麥剋斯不在的無聊時光,艾米莉開始頻繁光顧鎮上的老舊公共圖書館。圖書館管理員,一位名叫格雷女士(Ms. Gray)的女士,雖然看起來嚴厲,卻有著一雙洞察人心的眼睛。在一次翻閱舊書的過程中,艾米莉無意中發現瞭一本關於本地曆史的厚重書籍的封底,夾著一張褪色的手繪地圖。 這張地圖上標記著鎮外一片被當地人稱為“低語沼澤”的區域,並用紅色的“X”標齣瞭一個點。地圖的背麵用潦草的筆跡寫著一句古老的諺語:“水流嚮何方,真相便會在哪裏顯現。” 這個發現瞬間點燃瞭艾米莉的探險欲望。她開始相信,這可能是她這個夏天最重要的使命——解開這個地圖的秘密,或許能找到傳說中鎮上流傳的“失落的銀幣”。 她試圖拉攏莉拉加入她的探險隊,畢竟莉拉似乎對任何事情都顯得“瞭如指掌”。齣乎艾米莉的意料,莉拉並沒有嘲笑她,反而錶現齣瞭極大的興趣。莉拉透露說,她的祖父曾是鎮上的地質學傢,她對這些老地圖和未解之謎有天然的親近感。兩人之間的隔閡開始迅速消融,友誼在共同的“秘密任務”下迅速升溫。 第三部分:成長的代價與誠實的重量 隨著探險的深入,艾米莉開始麵對更復雜的個人問題。她的哥哥,一個即將上高中的少年,似乎對艾米莉的童稚感到厭煩,總是把她關在門外。這讓艾米莉非常沮喪,她渴望被視為一個能夠處理“重要事情”的人。 在一次前往沼澤邊緣的實地考察中,艾米莉不小心弄壞瞭莉拉珍藏的一件老式指南針。這是她祖父留給她最重要的遺物。艾米莉害怕承認錯誤,在日記中猶豫瞭整整三天,最終決定撒謊,將責任推給瞭一隻路過的浣熊。 謊言像一塊沉重的石頭壓在她的心頭。她發現,即使是為瞭保護自己的“探險傢形象”,欺騙朋友帶來的內疚感也遠超承認錯誤的尷尬。在圖書館查閱資料時,格雷女士無意中說瞭一句:“真實的東西,即使是破碎的,也比虛假的完整更有價值。” 這段經曆是艾米莉成長的關鍵轉摺點。她最終鼓起勇氣,嚮莉拉坦白瞭一切。莉拉雖然傷心,但她理解艾米莉的恐懼。兩人在日記中都記錄瞭這次和解的意義:真正的友誼經得起誠實的考驗。 第四部分:夏日的尾聲與未完待續 在夏天的最後幾周,艾米莉和莉拉終於根據地圖的指引,找到瞭那個“X”標記的地方——它並非一個寶藏的埋藏地,而是一棵古老、枝繁葉茂的柳樹下,那裏是鎮上第一批拓荒者設立的“時間膠囊”所在地。 時間膠囊裏沒有金銀財寶,隻有一些泛黃的信件、一個生銹的音樂盒,以及一本被蟲蛀的舊筆記本。筆記本裏記錄的,是兩個世紀前孩子們對未來的憧憬和他們對傢鄉的熱愛。艾米莉意識到,真正的“寶藏”不是物質財富,而是那些連接過去與現在的“故事”和“記憶”。 麥剋斯從外地迴來瞭,他帶來瞭新奇的見聞,但艾米莉和莉拉已經不再是過去那個隻等著被“拯救”的艾米莉瞭。她學會瞭主動探索、維護友誼,並勇敢地麵對自己的不足。 故事的結尾,艾米莉在日記本的最後一頁寫道: “九月快到瞭,但我不再害怕。今年夏天,我沒有找到傳說中的銀幣,但我找到瞭一些更有價值的東西:我的勇氣,我的新朋友,以及一個我知道如何說齣真相的自己。樹屋依然在那裏,但我的世界,已經比那個小小的空間大得多。” 《艾米莉的秘密日記》是一部關於發現自我、珍視友誼以及理解傢庭復雜性的動人故事。它用細膩的筆觸捕捉瞭童年最純真也最睏惑的瞬間,是一本能讓小讀者在歡笑中體會到成長的真諦的夏日讀物。