Amazon.com description: Product Description: "Here's the sweet and funny inside scoop on The Simpsons, straight from the mouth of Bart herself."--Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons Nancy Cartwright is the ultimate Simpsons insider. Her raspy, childlike voice is immediately recognizable as none other than that irreverent ten-year-old Bart Simpson. In this behind-the-scenes story, she reveals what it's like to be at the center of an American institution, one that reinvented the sitcom, rocked the networks to the core, and changed forever the face of American television. Tracing The Simpsons' rise to popularity, she explains what goes into making the half-hour animated series and offers hilarious anecdotes about cast members and guest stars, including Mel Gibson, Meryl Streep, and Elizabeth Taylor. Packed with more information than has ever been revealed about the longest-running animated show, here is the perfect book for the millions of Simpsons fans who can't get enough of America's favorite dysfunctional family.