Park began publishing children’s books in the early 1980s. After attending Rider College in Lawrence Township, N.J., she earned a bachelor’s degree in history and political science from the University of Alabama. Park was leading young readers into a den of syntactic iniquity, the widely prevailing view, as the trade publication Booklist wrote in 2002, was that the books were “sassy, hilarious and insightful.”īarbara Lynne Tidswell was born on April 21, 1947, in Mount Holly Township, N.J. While some parents and educators howled that Ms. I just like B and that’s all.”Īt the start of the book, Junie is about to begin kindergarten, which, as she sagely observes, “is where you go to meet new friends and not watch TV.” Jones,” she declares in the opening sentence. Park’s young heroine bursts onto the page fully and irrepressibly formed: Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus” (1992), Ms. In the very first book in the series, “Junie B. If almost any of Ginger Rogers’s tough-girl characters had been portrayed as a child, she would have been much like Junie B. The books have sold more than 55 million copies in North America, according to Random House, and have been translated into a dozen languages. The cause was ovarian cancer, her publisher, Random House Children’s Books, said.Īimed at beginning readers and illustrated by Denise Brunkus, the Junie B. Jones, a 6-year-old dispenser of abundant opinions, Runyonesque wisecracks and dubious syntax, have sold tens of millions of copies and delighted all but the most grammatically puritanical parents and teachers, died on Friday at her home in Scottsdale, Ariz.
Barbara Park, whose children’s books starring Junie B.
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