 Upon the release of her third children’s novel, "Tennyson", reviewers compared her to writers Flannery O’Connor, Eudora Welty, and Truman Capote (“Brilliant, unusual writing.”—"The Chicago Tribune").Blume’s first collection of short stories for children, "Modern Fairies, Dwarves, Goblins, and Other Nasties", was released in 2010; her second collection – "The Wondrous Journals of Wendell Wellington Wiggins" – debuted in 2012.Knopf released her latest children’s novel – "Julia and the Art of Practical Travel" – in 2015.