Meg Medina is an award-winning Cuban American author who writes picture books, middle grade stories, and YA fiction. Her picture books include Tía Isa Wants a Car and Mango, Abuela, and Me, winner of the 2016 Pura Belpré Honor Award. Her middle grade book, Merci Suárez Changes Gears, won the 2019 Newbery Medal.
As the youngest of five sisters, Megan McDonald could hardly get in a word edgewise at the dinner table. As a result, she began to stutter sometime during elementary school. That’s when Megan’s mother bought her a notebook so that she could at least get her words onto paper. Little did Megan’s older sisters know, this quiet observer would one day become a famous author whose words would be translated into multiple languages. Moreover, many of the anecdotes that appear in the Judy Moody books are actually based on real incidents — like the time Megan scared one of her sisters by hiding a fake hand in the toilet.
