“‘Are You There, God?’ rocked my socks. No one understood why I was reading it.”
It’s so simple! Family members can wrap a new book, or share a favorite from their own childhood. The important thing is what happens next: sitting and reading together.
“I almost fell over. I honestly thought she meant that all the books were mine . It was a day that made my world bigger and immeasurably better. And the best part were the new friends my librarian introduced me to, like Judy Blume and Agatha Christie. “Superfudge” was the first book I ever coveted. But it was Blume’s “Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret” that rocked my socks. Since I was a boy, no one understood why I was reading it. But I was a boy trying to figure out how girls worked.
“Today, those lessons I learned in the library inspire every children’s book I write: ‘I am Amelia Earhart,’ ‘I am Abraham Lincoln,’ ‘I am Rosa Parks,’ ‘I am Albert Einstein’ — and every other title in our ‘Ordinary People Change the World’ series. Indeed, the series started because I wanted to give my own children heroes of kindness, compassion and perseverance, which is what Judy Blume and Agatha Christie gave to me.
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