Judy Blume

From: Talk of the Nation (NPR) | Date: October 21, 1998| Author: Ray Suarez, Washington DC | Copyright information


NPR Talk of the Nation

10-21-1998

RAY SUAREZ, HOST: This is TALK OF THE NATION. I'm Ray Suarez.

Now that life circumstances lead me to the children's section of bookstores more and more these days, I get to see what's out there for young readers in a way I never did before; well, at least not since I was young reader myself. There in neat, paper-smelling rows of shiny spines, along with the "Goosebumps" and the "Animorphs," along with the "Johnny Tremains" a...

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