| Junie B. Jones's First Boxed Set Ever! (Books 1-4) |  | Author: Barbara Park
Creator: Denise Brunkus
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
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Rating:  211 reviews
Sales Rank: 2,540
Format: Box set
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Number Of Items: 4
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5.3 x 1
ISBN: 0375813616
EAN: 9780375813610
ASIN: 0375813616
Publication Date: May 29, 2001
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Amazon.com Review
Outrageously sassy Junie B. Jones will make young kids crave their daily dose of reading. And with this handy four-volume boxed set, whether they start with Junie B. Jones and Some Sneaky Peeky Spying or Junie B. Jones and Her Big Fat Mouth, readers will laugh out loud at Junie B.'s hilarious mishaps and breathtakingly horrible grammar. Although the books should come with a caveat--Kids, don't try this syntax at home!--alert parents and teachers can use her malapropisms as learning opportunities for their impressionable charges. The set contains the first four titles in Barbara Park's extensive series (energetically illustrated by Denise Brunkus), including Junie B. Jones and a Little Monkey Business and Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus. All are great for reading aloud. (Ages 5 to 8) --Emilie Coulter
Product Description
Junie B. Jones's First Boxed Set Ever!
Ta-daa! It's me! It's Junie B. Jones! And guess what? This attractive box has my first four books in it! I can't wait for you to read them!
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 Relax July 27, 2010
MellissaValdess
Bonjour, I am a 10 year old. Junie Is funny and Id love to hang out with her. She is talking like a person my age but so what. Every one needs a little zest she is not cinderella, hey park this should be a tv show. Stop writing bad reviews everyone should be a little Junie b. B. Why did you stop Park keep going good job!
 All the things you don't want your Kindergarter to model... June 13, 2010
Piggers
I picked this box set thinking it would be a great way to introduce my soon to be Kindergartener to small chapter books. Like other parents I found myself editing out words like "hate, stupid" etc. Far too many times. Then there are the things that she does in the book that surely wouldn't want my daughter to attempt. Like hiding in the classroom closet, falls asleep and is alone there after school is over...
I understand they are for entertainment and not meant to be taken seriously so I am thinking these books MIGHT be ok for an older child who "knows better". If your child is younger like mine I would steer clear for a few years.
 There are better kids' books out there. May 28, 2010
AlphaMatilda
After comparing an excerpt from "Junie B. Jones and a Little Monkey Business" [...] with an excerpt from "The Great Gilly Hopkins" [...] I noticed one huge difference:
In "The Great Gilly Hopkins," even though Gilly speaks and thinks in slang and with grammatical shortcuts, the surrounding writing is largely grammatically correct.
This way, the reader can both get into Gilly's mind and character and also learn good grammar.
In contrast, in "Junie B. Jones..." there are comparatively few grammatically correct sentences. Even descriptive sentences are written in Junie's poor grammar, including many sentence fragments starting with "and" : "The baby pajamas were very weensy. And the baby socks wouldn't even fit on my big piggie toe." This could easily be two more or less correct sentences if the second "and" were removed.
The dialogue is pretty clever by itself. I agree with reviewers who say that the intervening bad grammar is affected and unnecessary.
Not for kids if you want to teach them morals. May 26, 2010
coffeedrinker (Southern California)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Boy, reading through the reviews it is easy to tell which parents have the kids that misbehave and which parents do not.
The grandparents bought this set for my three year old and five year old. The five year old is pretty much bored with the Dick and Jane books and wanted to try a book with a storyline. The three year loves to be read to. Like any good parent, I read through the books first and ended up throwing the set away. The first two books are complete trash. You cannot teach your children good behavior by making light of and actually encouraging bad behavior.
One reviewer stated these books get you to read with your children and that is the point spending time with your children. To me that is like saying you helped your child with their math homework, sure they got every answer wrong, but the important thing is helping your child with math.
With so many good books out there for children like Boxcar Children Series, anything ever written by Beverly Cleary (Henry Huggins, Ramona, Ralph S. Mouse series), Betsy, Rosco Rules, even the Magic Treehouse series, I do not understand why a parent would subject their children to a horrible series of books like Junie B. Jones.
Dear one-star reviewers: Congratulations on missing the point! May 24, 2010
Rob Rockner (Boston)
Um. People? Here's the thing about Junie B. Jones:
She's supposed to be a little kid.
She's not a generic little Anykid, no. She probably doesn't talk exactly the same way that your particular six-year-old does, just the same way that your six-year-old doesn't talk the same way as every other kid in their class. She's also a funny, headstrong, hyperactive little kid who's impulsive and sometimes rude. If you want to tell me you've never met a little kid like that, that's fine, but I'm not going to believe you.
The point: Barbara Park decided to write about a kid who acts out sometimes and isn't a model of proper behavior. If that offends you so much that you have to throw the books out and leave one-star reviews of them on Amazon, I trust you'll go do the same for The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and a wide variety of other children's classics featuring mischievous child protagonists.
A note on her grammar, by the way: an interesting thing to note is that in learning grammar, kids go through a few stages. When they're first learning irregular verbs and so on, they conjugate them properly; at this stage, they'll say "ran" for the past tense of "run", "brought" for "bring", etc. Then, as they come to understand the language better, they actually start conjugating them incorrectly. This is where "runned" and "bringed" come in. The reason is that they're coming to understand the rules of language: they're internalizing the rules and making sense of them, so they start adding "-ed" to verbs to make them past tense and so on. After that, they learn what the irregular verbs are all over again and start using them again. But the thing about the way that Junie talks is that it's authentic for a kid who's still at that stage of learning the rules. And while you may say that a kid her age should be past that learning-the-rules stage, here's the thing: that's what all the books are about. She's not just in the middle stage of learning the rules of grammar; she's also in the middle stage of learning the rules of how to behave. She acts and talks in ways that make sense to her, and a lot of the time she's way off target. That's why the books feel authentic, and why they're funny.
She's stubborn and headstrong and self-centered, sure. She's also five. Or six, depending on what book you're on. If you don't want your kids to know that there are little kids who act that way, go buy a copy of Pollyanna for them -- and then homeschool them and keep them away from other kids at all costs, so they don't find out for themselves.
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