# Fudge-a-Mania > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Fudge-a-Mania > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Fudge-a-Mania.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fudge-a-Mania > Source revision: 1354709351 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) 1990 children's novel by Judy Blume Fudge-A-Mania (book 3) First edition Author Judy Blume Language English Series Fudge series Genre Children's novel Publisher Dutton Children's Books Publication date 1990 Publication place United States Media type Print (paperback) Pages 160 pp ISBN 0-525-44672-9 OCLC 22115812 LC Class PZ7.B6265 Fu 1990 Preceded by Superfudge Followed by Double Fudge - [Children's literature portal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Children%27s_literature) - [1990s portal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:1990s) ***Fudge-a-Mania*** is a [1990](/source/1990_in_literature) [children's novel](/source/Children's_novel) by [Judy Blume](/source/Judy_Blume) and the fourth entry in the Fudge series. ## Plot [Peter Hatcher](/source/Peter_Hatcher) is horrified to learn of his family's plans to spend summer in a vacation home alongside the Tubmans, the family of his archrival, Sheila, located in [Southwest Harbor, Maine](/source/Southwest_Harbor%2C_Maine). On the other hand, his younger brother, [Fudge](/source/Fudge_Hatcher), who is five years old, anticipates the vacation because of his plans to marry Sheila as a means of protection against the supposed "monsters" hiding beneath his bed, knowing that spouses often share one. This wish is dropped after a newfound friend named Mitzi Apfel provides Fudge with a bottle of her grandmother's "monster spray" during the vacation, but Peter is stunned to learn that she is the granddaughter of an idolized baseball player known as "Big Apfel". Peter is allowed to invite his best friend, Jimmy Fargo, on the vacation with him, a privilege intended to compensate for having to spend it alongside Sheila; however, he becomes irritated when Jimmy starts to spend more time with her than with him out of sympathy for her own good friend's (Mouse Ellis, who was introduced in *[Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great](/source/Otherwise_Known_as_Sheila_the_Great)*) inability to join her on the vacation too, as she has the chicken pox. Along the way, Peter develops a huge infatuation on a teenage librarian named Isobel (Izzy for short) and Fudge is inspired to write a picture book after learning about Mitzi's own, "[Tell Me a Mitzi](/source/Lore_Segal)". Jimmy's father, Frank, a celebrated painter, also receives inspiration after the Hatchers' baby daughter, Tootsie, toddles across a canvas with blue paint smeared on her feet, commencing a series of paintings appropriately entitled "Baby Feet". Peter, Fudge, and Tootsie's widowed grandmother, Muriel, later marries Sheila's widowed grandfather, Buzzy Senior, much to Peter and Sheila's dismay, who thereafter pledged they would never stand each other, despite now being cousins-in-law. ## Reception In its review of the book, *[Kirkus Reviews](/source/Kirkus_Reviews)* wrote that "the story's a bit tame (no controversies here), but often amusingly true to life and with enough comic episodes to satisfy fans".[1] *[Publishers Weekly](/source/Publishers_Weekly)* called it a "fast-pitched, funny novel" and praised its "numerous diverting scenes".[2] ## Television adaptation A [television film](/source/Television_film) based on the book premiered on [ABC](/source/American_Broadcasting_Company) on January 7, 1995, in the United States, starring [Jake Richardson](/source/Jake_Richardson), [Florence Henderson](/source/Florence_Henderson), [Eve Plumb](/source/Eve_Plumb), [Shirley Knight](/source/Shirley_Knight), [Alex Karras](/source/Alex_Karras), [Luke Tarsitano](/source/Luke_Tarsitano), and [Darren McGavin](/source/Darren_McGavin). It was directed by [Bob Clark](/source/Bob_Clark). It also inspired a half-hour Saturday morning TV series, *[Fudge](/source/Fudge_(TV_series))*, which premiered on ABC the following Saturday morning and ran for two seasons.[3][4][5] ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["Fudge-a-mania"](https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/judy-blume/fudge-a-mania/). *www.kirkusreviews.com*. Kirkus Media LLC. September 15, 2000. Retrieved July 1, 2015. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["Fudge-a-mania"](https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-440-40490-3). *www.publishersweekly.com*. PWxyz LLC. Retrieved July 1, 2015. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** Kloer, Phil (January 12, 1995). ["'Fudge-a-Mania' is sweet kids' sitcom"](https://books.google.com/books?id=arsjAAAAIBAJ&dq=Fudge+ABC+Saturday&pg=PA9&article_id=4022,1114647). *Cox News Service*. [Moscow-Pullman Daily News](/source/Moscow-Pullman_Daily_News). p. 3C – via Google Books. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-dbnj01011995_4-0)** Gill, Suzanne (January 1, 1995). ["Children's book looks great on TV"](https://books.google.com/books?id=fUcuAAAAIBAJ&dq=Fudge+ABC+Saturday&pg=PA62&article_id=3610,520281). *TV Data News Service*. [Daytona Beach News-Journal](/source/Daytona_Beach_News-Journal) TV Journal. p. 21 – via Google Books. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** King, Susan (September 10, 1994). ["Saturday's family night on ABC"](https://books.google.com/books?id=Mq0sAAAAIBAJ&dq=fudge+book+tv+series&pg=PA18&article_id=3797,3528419). *[Los Angeles Times](/source/Los_Angeles_Times)*. p. 6D. Retrieved November 29, 2023 – via Google Books. ## External links - [*Fudge-a-Mania*](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113127/) at [IMDb](/source/IMDb_(identifier)) v t e Works by Judy Blume Fudge series Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great Superfudge Fudge-a-Mania Double Fudge Characters Peter Hatcher Fudge Hatcher Novels The One in the Middle Is the Green Kangaroo Iggie's House Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. Then Again, Maybe I Won't Freckle Juice It's Not the End of the World Deenie Blubber Forever... Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herself Wifey Tiger Eyes Smart Women Just as Long as We're Together Here's to You, Rachel Robinson Summer Sisters In the Unlikely Event Non-fiction and others The Judy Blume Diary Letters to Judy: What Your Kids Wish They Could Tell You The Pain and the Great One Places I Never Meant to Be Adaptations Forever (film) Fudge (TV series) Tiger Eyes (film) Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. (film) Forever (TV series) Authority control databases Open Library --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Fudge-a-Mania](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fudge-a-Mania) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fudge-a-Mania?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.