Book Report
Many of you along with myself may have recently heard an NPR Fresh Air interview with Judy Blume. An interview more or less reviewing Ms Blume’s fifty-year-old bestseller “Are you their God. It’s me Margaret” as it was adapted into motion picture form. Ms Blume concurs that the movie adaptation pretty much follows the book. For the past two or three weeks the Are you their God movie has received numerous positive reviews.
However, this is not a movie review but a book report. A report because I had never read the bestselling book. But I had now recently read the book because of the positive reviews of the movie version. Are you following me?
I just wanted to know, out of curiosity, what the big fuss was all about. So, I read Ms Blume’s book.
Title: Are you their God. It’s me Margaret, By Judy Blume growing up fiction 1970. Primarily a primer for preteen girls and their expectations of pre-pubescent bodily changes and its confusion and misinformation. If the movie does indeed follow the book, it should be a most hilarious and entertaining movie.Library of Congress annotation:
Margaret is lonely after her parents buy a new house in Farbrook, New Jersey. Because she is from the city, the new girls expect her to be more grown up than they are, but Margaret’s body hasn’t begun to mature yet and she’s never kissed a boy. For grades 4-7.
Take your preteen daughter or granddaughter to see this movie. You might even take your preteen son or grandson as well. Or just buy or borrow the book. It is a laugh out loud book. See it or read it. You’ll like it.