Junie B. Jones and Her Big Fat Mouth

Barbara Park, an American author, wrote many children's books. She is most well known for her Junie B. Jones series of chapter books about a trouble-making schoolgirl. Park's first manuscript, Operation: Dump the Chump (1982), was accepted by the Random House imprint Alfred A. Knopf, Inc in 1981. It became her third book to be published after Knopf accepted her other manuscripts for Don't Make Me Smile (1981) and Skinnybones (1982). She then wrote two books targeted at an audience of young girls: Beanpole (1983) and Buddies (1985). These were followed by The Kid in the Red Jacket (1987). Park began writing sequels with the Skinnybones sequel Almost Starring Skinnybones (1988), followed by a sequel to Don't Make Me Smile called My Mother Got Married (And Other Disasters) (1989). She next wrote a trilogy of books, The Geek Chronicles (1990–1993).