Go Room One! It’s time for the first-grade kickball tournament! Only, here’s the problem. Junie B. has hurt her big piggy toe and she can’t play on the team. So, now what? She definitely doesn’t want to be a cheerleader. But wait! Maybe she could be in Sheldon’s halftime show! Then all eyes would be on her! And she would be the star! Hurray! Hurray! Junie B. . . . in the spotlight. What could possibly go wrong?
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.