Don’t Make Me Smile was published first in 1981, followed by Operation: Dump the Chump (1982) and Skinnybones (1982). Knopf Books for Young Readers acquired her first manuscript, Operation: Dump the Chump and two others. She said, "My senior year of high school, I was voted 'Wittiest.' So several years later, I decided to try my hand at writing humor and see if I could be witty enough to make some money."Īfter several rejections, Alfred A. She got her secondary education degree but quickly realized that her calling was to be a writer. Before becoming a bestselling and beloved children’s author, she originally intended to teach high school history and political science. Park died on Friday, Novemafter fighting ovarian cancer heroically for seven and a half years.īarbara Park arrived at the writing profession through an indirect route. The series was consistently a #1 New York Times bestseller, spending over 180 weeks on the list, and Barbara and her books were profiled in such national outlets as Time, Newsweek, USA Today, The New York Times, and Today.
Published by Random House Books for Young Readers, the series has sold over 60 million copies in North America alone, has been translated into multiple languages and is a beloved and time-honored staple in elementary school classrooms around the world. Jones series, the stories of an outrageously funny kindergartener who has kept kids (and their grownups) laughing-and reading-for over two decades. Barbara Park was best-known as the creator and author of the New York Times bestselling Junie B.
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