Reading Rockets is a great site to find information about children's authors. The videos or podcasts are invaluable for allowing the viewer to get to know the author. This in turn gives the viewer a better understanding of how the author came to write the story.
I chose to view the podcast of Megan McDonald, author of the Judy Moody stories and more recently the Judy Moody and Stink stories. Megan spoke about how she was the youngest of five sisters and was bossed around by her sisters. Her character Judy Moody is a "big sister" figure and Megan felt that Judy needed someone to boss -hence Stink, her little brother. One of the incidents described in an early Judy Moody story actually happened in Megan's own childhood. I thoroughly recommend that Children's Librarians view this very happy interview with Megan McDonald.
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