Cool Stuff and Sources

https://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/26/fashion/26junie.html This article talks about the ways that parents/educators sometimes find Park’s writing to encourage poor grammar or misbehaving. Park even takes time to speak on this, defending her writing and the negative criticism.
http://juniebjones.com This is a link to the main website, and I just think it is adorable and makes me appreciate the work of Barbara Park even more.
https://mdtheatreguide.com/2019/11/theatre-review-junie-b-jones-the-musical-at-college-of-southern-maryland/ This link provides a review of the musical performed at the University of Southern Maryland, and I find this particularly interesting because I had no idea that this was a play.
https://bookriot.com/2019/10/17/junie-b-jones-nightmare-child-or-feminist-icon/ This link relates to my argument about Junie B. Jones and her relation to to being representative of feminism/an alternative vision of femininity in children’s literature.
https://www.otherpress.com/authors/barbara-park/ Here is another link that features Park’s funny Q&A.

Works Cited

Baker-Sperry, Lori, and Liz Grauerholz. “The Pervasiveness and Persistence of the Feminine Beauty Ideal in Children’s Fairy Tales.” Gender & Society, vol. 17, no. 5, Oct. 2003, pp. 711–726, doi:10.1177/0891243203255605.
Grauerholz, Elizabeth, and Bernice A. Pescosolido. “Gender Representation in Children’s Literature: 1900-1984.” Gender and Society, vol. 3, no. 1, 1989, pp. 113–125. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/190043.
“Laugh Yourself Silly with Junie B. Jones.” Junie B. Jones, http://juniebjones.com/author. Web.