We'll miss you, Barbara Park!

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We in the Children's Department were very sad to learn that Barbara Park passed away last week. Park was a prolific children's author, best-known for her Junie B. Jones series.

Before Junie B.'s first adventure in 1992, Park wrote several other novels for children, including Mick Harte Was Here and The Kid in the Red Jacket, along with two picture books titled Psssst! It's Me...The Bogeyman and Ma! There's Nothing to Do Here! A Word From Your Baby-in-Waiting.

Our system holds most of Barbara Park's books, and we encourage you to memorialize her by searching the catalog for "Park, Barbara." Remember that you can have books sent from another location to your home library!

Of course, we are all very sad to lose Barbara Park, but, as Suzanne Perez Tobias said in this wonderful memorial, "Junie B. Jones will live forever."