Saturday, March 28, 2009

The Main Character



The main character is Judy Moody. Judy Moody's appearance is not arranged.

Judy Moody, third-grader, big sister, avid collector, and future doctor . . . but most of all, famous for her many moods.

The plot: Judy woke up in the morning, she ate eight bowls of cereal and found a prize. The prize was a mood ring with a little piece of cardboard showing the colors of the moods. Judy put the mood ring on her finger and the ring turned black (black meant grouchy, impossible). Judy didn't understand why the ring was black, so she threw it to the bin because she thought it was broken. Her brother Stink found the ring in the bin and took it for himself. He put the ring on his finger and it turned green (green meant jealous, envy).
Judy came into Stink's room and saw him with her mood ring, she also saw that the ring was green and was working and unbroken. She wanted the ring back but Stink didn't give it to her and said he found it in the bin.
Judy said that she knows how to predict the future but for that she needs the ring on her finger, so Stink gave Judy the ring and she predicted many things.
One day she came to school with her mood ring and during the recess she showed it to all her friends and predicted their moods with the mood ring.


Judy moody's sites:


http://www.judymoody.com/


http://www.judymoody.com/mood_ring.htm

Friday, March 27, 2009

The Author: Megan McDonald


Megan McDonald was born on February 28, 1959 (age 50), in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to Jhon and Mary Louise McDonald, The youngest of five girls.
She was awarded a B.A. 1981, and an M.L.S. in 1745.

Megan McDonald is married and lives in Sebastopol, California.

Because of her inability to express herself amidst her older siblings, McDonald's mother gave her a notebook to write her thoughts down in. This experience, along with the author's vivid imagination as a child, became the foundation for the young girl's later career as a children's author.
McDonald began her career as a children's librarian.

McDonald wrote The Judy Moody series follows the humorous adventures of a third-grader, Judy Moody. A spin-off series follows her younger brother, nicknamed Stink. McDonald wrote also few Picture books, Early readers books and noveles.



The genre of her The Judy Moody series is usually realistic fiction.
The audience of those books is usually young girls 9-13 years old.