Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing

I've been a fan of this book since a teacher read it to me and the rest of my class when I was in, fittingly enough, the fourth grade. It tells the story of Peter Hatcher and the trials and tribulations he goes through having a little brother like Farley Drexel AKA Fudge. Such misadventures include Fudge causing Peter's advertiser father to lose a potential client, to jumping off a set of monkey bars and losing a few of his own teeth, culminating in an act so bizarre even now I find it hard to imagine. Audible had this book, read by the lady of the hour herself. I've always been rather skeptical of authors reading their own novels since some just don't have the voice for it (Stephen King comes to mind for me rather quickly as does Douglas Adams), but Judy, though she took a little bit of getting used to, grew on me. The author knows what is or her characters should sound like and Judy does them justice, from Peter to his parents, even Fudge's temper tantrums. An excellent book brought excellently to life, and by its author no less. I always like it when an author is able to read their own work and actually give it personality.

My daugter (11) and her friend listned to this with me while on a car drive. The length was perfert for the trip. We all enjoyed the story and had many a laugh. My daugther has since become engrossed in reading all the books.

Fudge was hillarious

Found the book to be very funny at times

No, the audio version is great for road trips, but I found the narrators (Judy Bloom) performance lacking. I think a voice actor would have been better at playing the various characters

Mostly neutral occasionally annoying

My boys 5 and 7 laughed almost all the way through! they both got a little sad toward the end

Some of the language and descriptions are obviously "of there time" and I had to explain to my kids what a "junkie" was and explain that people used to get mugged more often in Manhattan when the book was written.

I remember reading these as a child so now that my son is of age to read them too I could not wait to share. I was this series by downloading the able to get him interested in the series by downloading these books if I would have relied on him just reading them he never would have got past the cover.

We would listen to the story going to school each morning and when we were doing errands in the evening/weekends. He totally fell in love and ALWAYS would make me turn on the story before we left the drive way. Cant ask for much more from a 7 year old. The story reminded ME why i still love Judy Blume. I enjoyed listening to her read her own story. I knew it was how SHE imagined the characters!

i love this book everyone should read it