it is "summer sisters" by judy blume. it is one of my all-time favorite summer reads.of r, her connectio r fans how she hopes t remembered♪lining talls of boan book key w florida, are the names ocal literary legend earnest hemingway, tennessee williams, shell silverstein. but another literary legend is judy blumehind the counters, >> that's going to be for you. this is a great love of your and it happekind of accidentally >> we came here for a month because i was trying to finish it was just puurself someplace else and forget your oubles. >> the prolific author writte booith 90 million co sold. including best-sellerse "tales of a 4th grade nothing" and "are you there god it's me margaret." which recently became a d movie mohan 40 years after she wrote the book >> please, please, please, please, please >> reporter: growing up in elizabeth, new jersey, judy's love of literature started early. your mom was the one that showed you the love of reading. >> my mother loved to read she loved books. my mother was a warrior, anxious about everything but never about what we were

let's talk about judy blume again. >> judge jeanine: graphic imagery in some of those. >> jessica: 51%ts are given state. >> charlie: parents went to the school board. dana, big picture. when into a democrat state and eight democrats' lunch. >> dana: the person should be the most mad about this is joe biden. gavin newsom is so obviously running for president. he's trying to rebrand himself as a governor youngkin or ron desantis or sarah huckabee sanders. saying that they have an 80% of approval rating when it comes to parents. >> charlie: you don't have kids. >> greg: how do you know that. don't jump to conclusions. >> jessica: then you should acknowledge her kids. >> charlie: worrying about their pronouns. does that mean there may be not learning something in school? >> greg: telling parents how to feel is different than listening to them. he's telling them how they should feel. he should also admit he would never let a teacher or activist get between him and his kids. is that extreme? that's the simplest thing that he should answer but i bet he can't because he's terrified of the act

. >>> legendary author judy blume bringing her books to a new generation of kids. spoke about the way her books make kids feel seen. >> and then they started to come. >> like 2,000 a month. >> there were a lot of them. some of them were so desperate. it was tough, very tough, for a couple of years there in the '80s. i couldn't write at all because i was just answering their letters. >> wow. >> and so i had to learn to remove myself enough so that i could write again. >> wow, blume hasttver 29 books with 90 million copies sold. one of her most popular books "are you there, god, it's me, margaret" was turned into a film. i bought those books for my girls. it's interesting to see it carry on. >> every time i see her, oh, yeah, she's still around. >> you can catch the full rview w the iconichor ahead on the "today" show at 7:00 right after "today in the bay." >>> right now at 6:00, a body found in a burning brush fire overnight in oakland. the investigation now under way to find out how this person may have died. >>> new revelations in the murder case of tech executive

children's book authors like judy blume are defending it. that was just yesterday. what is it? yeah. yeah. she initially had defended j.k. rowling and. then she got hit by the mob. that's coming. j.k. rowling. and she backtracked and said, i am against book. look at the books. at the books that they're accusing us of banning. they are pornographic. there are videos of trying to read from these books. school board meetings and their mikes are being turned off because they are that graphic. parents have tried to hold up images of these books and they're they're trying to portray us as bigots. they the people who are writing these books are writing in homosexual and i think that parent wants their year old to read about. and this a story i tell in the book. she was eight then. my eight year old picked up a graphic novel in two girls at a sleepover. have an encounter. i don't want my eight year old reading a graphic novel about two girls at a sleepover, having an encounter with any. not with each other. not with brother no one. it's not appropriate. but they're using lgbt and not l