Judy Blume Quotes

My relationship with the 'Baby-Sitters Club' series bordered on addiction, and my mom got me heavily into the Trixie Belden mysteries as well. Trixie Belden was like Nancy Drew, but without the boyfriends and cute outfits, which I think is the reason my mother preferred her.

As I kid, I read the 'Little House on the Prairie' series and was sad when I got to the last book.

When I started writing 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid,' I was trying to write the type of book you might enjoy, put back on your shelf, and rediscover a few years later. I hope that the book finds its way into the bathroom of every kid in America.

I used to have all the Goosebumps books as a kid too.

When I was nine, 'The Borrowers' was such a big series for me!

I can remember exactly where I sat when my teacher first read Roald Dahl's 'James and the Giant Peach'.

I've seen 'Fried Green Tomatoes' too many times. I love life stories told in flashback.

When I was growing up, there actually wasn't a lot of YA literature as it exists today. Most of the YA that I read was from the '60s and '70s, older than me.

I loved Frances Hodgson Burnett, who wrote 'The Little Princess' and 'The Secret Garden.' And I loved the 'Little House on the Prairie' books by Laura Ingalls Wilder.

If you would ask my mom what books I liked growing up, I liked Dr. Seuss.

My favorite movie of all-time is 'Stand By Me,' and I re-read my favorite young adult books often.

'Until Friday Night' is the first book in my new young adult series, 'The Field Party.'

'The Giver' by Lois Lowry - I had to read this in school, and I fell in love with it. It was my favorite book as a child, and I read and reread it. I would pretend I lived in that world and that Asher was my best friend.

For the record, I have long suspected that my favorite book is actually 'Charlotte's Web.'

I probably read Harriet the Spy about 70,000 times.

When I watch 'Glee', it reminds me of my upbringing.

Of all the novels I've written, my favorite is 'Mick Harte Was Here'.

If I had to pick, I'd say my favorite book is 'A Prayer For Owen Meany', by John Irving.

I watched 'My Girl' as an adult pretty recently, and it's a good movie.

Robin McKinley's 'The Blue Sword' was a defining book of my teen years, and I'd love to have more books like that in the world.

Initially with The Butcher Boy, there was this kid growing up in this strange, weird environment that I remember from when I was a kid. And Patrick's vision was so complete there.

'Felicity' was my 'Gilmore Girls' because I grew up in a small town.

When I lived in China, there were no libraries. My mother bought books for me, and they were mostly the classics. I read 'Peter Pan,' 'The Secret Garden,' the 'Rosemary' books, and Kipling's 'Just So' Stories was one of my favorites. No, I didn't read historical fiction. It didn't exist where I was growing up in China.

In elementary school, I loved the 'Bailey School Kids' series. It was about a group of classmates who would speculate whether adults in their lives were supernatural beings. I read literally every single book in the series.

When I was really little, my favorite book was 'The BFG'. I read it - my teacher in, like, first grade read it to us. I love that book.