There's going to be a Pet Day at school--only the rule is No Dogs And that's the only kind of pet Junie B. has If Mother won't let her get a new pet, then Junie B. will have to take matters into her own hands. Maybe a jar of ants? Or a wiggly worm? Or--could it be--something even better? The world's funniest kindergartner is back in her twelfth book.
In 1992, Barbara Park began what was conceived as a four-book series for Random House about the antics of a precocious and adventurous kindergartner named Junie B. Jones.
Park is one of today's funniest and most popular children's authors. In addition to the Junie books, she has written several middle-grade novels including Operation: Dump the Chump, Skinny-Bones and Mick Harte Was Here. She has received more than 40 awards, including the Parents' Choice Award in 1985 and the Library of Congress Book of the Year in 1987.
Park answered Barnes & Noble's questions from her home in Scottsdale, Arizona, where she lives with her husband and two sons.