Kelly Fremon Craig ('The Edge of Seventeen') adapts the beloved novel about a girl on the cusp of puberty, with Abby Ryder Fortson, Benny Safdie and Kathy Bates co-starring.
turned into a film. The beloved author received numerous calls from Hollywood executives over the years asking for her blessing . “Not every book has to be a movie,” the author. “I just didn’t think it would ever be done in the way that I would have felt proud of.”
She makes a fair point. Blume’s novel — a modest story of a sixth grader who, on the cusp of puberty, finds herself talking with God — endures because it offers readers solace during a famously uncertain time. Puberty happens to everyone, but amid newly sprouting pimples and peculiar body odors one can suddenly feel desperately alone. An adaptation would be too easy to botch, could too easily shatter the magic Blume so carefully conjured. So, the writer gently turned down each bid and moved on.
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