Question: Which 1997 children's-fantasy-comedy film stars a former child actress who now focuses on a career writing?

Context articles: Kaitlin Cullum
Bea Nicolas
Jane Withers
A Simple Wish
Victoria Paige Meyerink
Isabella de Leon
Lauren Chapin
Stacy Heather Tolkin
Juanita Quigley
Mara Wilson

Kaitlin Cullum (born June 24, 1986) is an American actress.
 As a child actress, she is best known for her role as Libby Kelly in the sitcom "Grace Under Fire".
 Her older sister Kimberly Cullum is also a former child actress.
Bea Nicolas (born Beatrice Faye Cancio Nicolas on April 15, 1994) is a Filipino former child actress in film and television.
 Her older sister is former child actress Iwi Nicolas.
 Nicolas is a licensed Medical technologist.
Jane Withers (born April 12, 1926) is an American actress, model, and singer.
 Beginning a prolific career as a child actress at the age of three, Withers is a Young Artist Award–Former Child Star "Lifetime Achievement" Award honoree, best known for being one of the most popular child film stars of the 1930s and early 1940s, as well as for her portrayal of "Josephine the Plumber" in a series of TV commercials for Comet cleanser in the 1960s and early 1970s and probably best known for playing the obnoxious Joy Smythe in the movie she paired with Shirley Temple, "Bright Eyes".
 Also a singer, she debuted the Jule Styne-Sammy Cahn torch song "Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry" in 1944 in "Glad To See You", a musical intended for Broadway which closed out of town in Philadelphia.
A Simple Wish (also known as The Fairy Godmother) is a 1997 children's-fantasy-comedy film directed by Michael Ritchie, and starring Martin Short, Mara Wilson, and Kathleen Turner.
 The film about a bumbling male fairy godmother named Murray (Short), who tries to help 8-year-old Annabel (Wilson) fulfill her wish that her father, a carriage driver, wins the leading role in a Broadway musical.
Victoria Paige Meyerink (born December 27, 1960) is an award-winning producer and former child actress.
 At the age of four, Meyerink became Danny Kaye's co-star on the CBS variety series "The Danny Kaye Show" and, in 2006, was honored by the Young Artist Foundation with its Former Child Star "Lifetime Achievement" Award for her role on the series.
Isabella de Leon or Isabelle de Leon (born July 30, 1994 in Manila) is a Filipino actress, singer and songwriter.
 She was a former child actress, known to many as Duday in GMA-7's sitcom "Daddy Di Do Du" (2001).
 She garnered a FAMAS Best Child Actress award for her role in "Magnifico" (2003).
Lauren Chapin (born May 23, 1945, Los Angeles, California) is an American former child actress, most remembered for her role as the youngest child "Kathy Anderson" (nicknamed "Kitten") in the television show "Father Knows Best", which was produced between 1954 and 1960.
 Chapin was awarded five Junior Emmys for Best Child Actress.
 Two of her older brothers were also child stars, Billy and Michael Chapin.
Stacy Heather Tolkin is a former child actress who played the part of Irina in "The Concorde ... Airport '79", and voiced a number of 1983 television productions featuring Charles Schulz Peanuts characters.
 Tolkin also voiced Sally Brown and Truffles in "The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show".
 She also played Herb Tarlek's daughter in a few episodes of "WKRP In Cincinnati".
 As a child actress, Tolkin was in over a hundred commercials including McDonald's, Grandma's Cookies, and Kellogg's Corn Flakes.
 She was also on the cover of the Kellogg's Corn Flakes box.
 Tolkin played Bonnie Franklin's daughter in the TV movie, "Portrait of a Rebel: Margaret Sanger".
Juanita Quigley (born 24 June 1931) is a former child actress in American motion pictures of the 1930s and 1940s.
 She had a sister, Rita Quigley, who was also a child actress.
Mara Elizabeth Wilson (born July 24, 1987) is an American author and former child actress.
 She is known for playing Natalie Hillard in "Mrs. Doubtfire" (1993), Susan Walker in "Miracle on 34th Street" (1994), and Matilda Wormwood in "Matilda" (1996).
 Since retiring from film acting, Wilson has focused on writing.