内容简介
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.
作者简介
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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艾米莉的秘密日记:夏日里的成长、友谊与小小的冒险 作者: 莎拉·詹宁斯 (Sarah Jennings) 装帧: 平装 适合年龄: 8岁及以上读者 --- 简介: 在那个阳光总是比别处来得更热烈、蝉鸣声声不绝于耳的夏天,十岁的艾米莉·卡特琳(Emily Carter)发现自己正站在一个充满未知与挑战的十字路口。她不是在处理什么惊天动地的危机,而是在处理那些只属于“即将进入高年级的小大人”的烦恼:友谊的微妙变化、对未知事物的强烈好奇心,以及如何在一个总是把她当成“小妹妹”的家庭中,争取到属于自己的独立空间。 《艾米莉的秘密日记》并非聚焦于那些宏大的史诗故事,而是深入描绘了童年向少年过渡时期,那些细微却又影响深远的内心波动。故事围绕着艾米莉那本锁着的小小日记本展开,这本日记成了她观察、记录和思考一切的“安全港湾”。 第一部分:秘密基地的建立与夏日序曲 故事开始于一个寻常的六月。艾米莉最好的朋友,总是充满活力的麦克斯(Max),突然宣布他要搬去另一个城市过暑假,这让艾米莉感到了强烈的被抛弃感。为了应对这种突如其来的分离焦虑,艾米莉决定在后院那棵老橡树的树屋里,建立一个“绝对秘密”的基地。她用收集来的旧布料、闪闪发光的鹅卵石,以及从奶奶那里“借来”的一些古董小玩意儿,将树屋装饰成一个充满奇思妙想的避难所。 然而,这个秘密基地很快就面临了第一个考验:新搬来的邻居,一个略显神秘、总是戴着一副oversize太阳镜的女孩——莉拉(Lila)。莉拉看起来比艾米莉成熟几岁,举止间带着一种成年人的冷静。艾米莉最初对她充满戒心,认为莉拉是来侵占她的夏日领土的。 日记本的第一页记录了这种复杂的感受:“今天我画了一个迷宫,上面写着‘危险,请勿靠近’。莉拉就是那个迷宫里的守卫,我不知道她要守护什么,但我确定那不是我能进去的宝藏。” 第二部分:图书馆的谜团与老地图 为了打发麦克斯不在的无聊时光,艾米莉开始频繁光顾镇上的老旧公共图书馆。图书馆管理员,一位名叫格雷女士(Ms. Gray)的女士,虽然看起来严厉,却有着一双洞察人心的眼睛。在一次翻阅旧书的过程中,艾米莉无意中发现了一本关于本地历史的厚重书籍的封底,夹着一张褪色的手绘地图。 这张地图上标记着镇外一片被当地人称为“低语沼泽”的区域,并用红色的“X”标出了一个点。地图的背面用潦草的笔迹写着一句古老的谚语:“水流向何方,真相便会在哪里显现。” 这个发现瞬间点燃了艾米莉的探险欲望。她开始相信,这可能是她这个夏天最重要的使命——解开这个地图的秘密,或许能找到传说中镇上流传的“失落的银币”。 她试图拉拢莉拉加入她的探险队,毕竟莉拉似乎对任何事情都显得“了如指掌”。出乎艾米莉的意料,莉拉并没有嘲笑她,反而表现出了极大的兴趣。莉拉透露说,她的祖父曾是镇上的地质学家,她对这些老地图和未解之谜有天然的亲近感。两人之间的隔阂开始迅速消融,友谊在共同的“秘密任务”下迅速升温。 第三部分:成长的代价与诚实的重量 随着探险的深入,艾米莉开始面对更复杂的个人问题。她的哥哥,一个即将上高中的少年,似乎对艾米莉的童稚感到厌烦,总是把她关在门外。这让艾米莉非常沮丧,她渴望被视为一个能够处理“重要事情”的人。 在一次前往沼泽边缘的实地考察中,艾米莉不小心弄坏了莉拉珍藏的一件老式指南针。这是她祖父留给她最重要的遗物。艾米莉害怕承认错误,在日记中犹豫了整整三天,最终决定撒谎,将责任推给了一只路过的浣熊。 谎言像一块沉重的石头压在她的心头。她发现,即使是为了保护自己的“探险家形象”,欺骗朋友带来的内疚感也远超承认错误的尴尬。在图书馆查阅资料时,格雷女士无意中说了一句:“真实的东西,即使是破碎的,也比虚假的完整更有价值。” 这段经历是艾米莉成长的关键转折点。她最终鼓起勇气,向莉拉坦白了一切。莉拉虽然伤心,但她理解艾米莉的恐惧。两人在日记中都记录了这次和解的意义:真正的友谊经得起诚实的考验。 第四部分:夏日的尾声与未完待续 在夏天的最后几周,艾米莉和莉拉终于根据地图的指引,找到了那个“X”标记的地方——它并非一个宝藏的埋藏地,而是一棵古老、枝繁叶茂的柳树下,那里是镇上第一批拓荒者设立的“时间胶囊”所在地。 时间胶囊里没有金银财宝,只有一些泛黄的信件、一个生锈的音乐盒,以及一本被虫蛀的旧笔记本。笔记本里记录的,是两个世纪前孩子们对未来的憧憬和他们对家乡的热爱。艾米莉意识到,真正的“宝藏”不是物质财富,而是那些连接过去与现在的“故事”和“记忆”。 麦克斯从外地回来了,他带来了新奇的见闻,但艾米莉和莉拉已经不再是过去那个只等着被“拯救”的艾米莉了。她学会了主动探索、维护友谊,并勇敢地面对自己的不足。 故事的结尾,艾米莉在日记本的最后一页写道: “九月快到了,但我不再害怕。今年夏天,我没有找到传说中的银币,但我找到了一些更有价值的东西:我的勇气,我的新朋友,以及一个我知道如何说出真相的自己。树屋依然在那里,但我的世界,已经比那个小小的空间大得多。” 《艾米莉的秘密日记》是一部关于发现自我、珍视友谊以及理解家庭复杂性的动人故事。它用细腻的笔触捕捉了童年最纯真也最困惑的瞬间,是一本能让小读者在欢笑中体会到成长的真谛的夏日读物。