alwasy great

:)

Reading to Lily. She is beyond excited that Junie B. Is also in kindergarten. She also spontaneously told me that Junie is doing it all wrong. Whew! Object lesson and so much fun!

She is so crazy

I got this out of the library for my 4yo on a classmate's mom's recommendation.

My 4yo loved it, I hated it. I expect it would be fine for a slightly older kid who would get the "humor", but for my 4yo it was just exposing her for the first time to a bunch of inappropriate stuff.

Specifically:

The grammar is atrocious. It's supposed to be cute, but it sets my teeth on edge. I wouldn't let my daughter talk like that, so why would I read her a book written that way? I corrected it as I read it.

Junie B. is a brat. My daughter and her friends haven't yet gotten to the "you're not my friend" stage, I certainly don't want her learning it from these books! There is a "teaching moment" at the end, but when you're reading it over the course of several days it takes much too long to get to it for the message to sink in.

The language sucks. ;) Lots of "dumb" and "stupid" which my daughter is horrified by, both being "bad words" at preschool.

We may revisit these books when she's older and can understand it all a little better, but hopefully she'll find better books she likes just as much!

Barbara Park mastered the shenanigans of six and seven year olds. Hilarious and perfect.

I actually read this book a long time ago, but I never wrote a review for it. I wanted to, but I kept getting destracted by other things. Also, I didn't want to have to deal with dictate being annoying. However, I just got a new BrailleNote, which is a thing like a braille computer, but the screen is at the bottom. This BrailleNote has access to the internet, which means I can do Goodreads now. No more dictating. I can type it in on a braille keyboard faster than I can type on an iPod or dictate. As you can see, I am very excited! Now, though, I think that the reviews I write will be a lot better.
Anyway, this was another Junie B. book that Mom read to me. She read several of them allowed to me when I was in preschool.
I'm going to do my review a little bit differently this time. When I was five, I got a new voice recorder for Christmas. I loved it and recorded pretty much anything from me making funny noises to my dad brushing his teeth to see how it sounded. Dad decided that I could record him asking questions about my favorite books. This book was one of them. I want part of the video to be in the review. I can't add in a link, but I will write in what we say. Just so you know, there will be spoilers ahead! Although, this isn't the kind of series you have to read in order.
Dad: (in the video) "I'm here with my daughter. Her name is Eleanor. Eleanor, can you say hi?"
Me: "Hi."
Dad: "Just want to ask you a couple of questions. First of all, what is your favorite book?"
Me: "Junie B. Jones and Little House. I like two favorite books."
Dad: "Two favorite books. Wow! Well out of all the Junie B. Jones books, which is your favorite Junie B. Jones book?"
Me: (smiling) "Monkey Business."
Dad: "Monkey business? What's that about?"
Me: "Baby Ollie being born."
Dad: "Baby Ollie being born? Who's Baby Ollie?"
Me: (matter of factly) "Junie B. Jones's baby brother."
Dad: "Oh, and does she like him?"
Me: "Yeah."
Dad: "That's good. Do you like your babies?" (I have two younger sisters, and at that time, one of them was a baby.)
Eleanor: "Yeah."
Dad: "Your baby sister Gwennie when she was a baby? Did you like her?"
Me: "Mmhmm."
"What about Baby Poppy? Do you like her?"
Me: "Mmhmm."
Then, Dad moves on to asking questions about Little House.
As I said before in the video, Junie B. Jones and a Little Monkey Business is about Junie B. getting a little brother. She doesn't like the idea at first, but then, she does. Her grandma says that he's the cutest little monkey she's ever seen. Naturally, Junie B. believes that her lrother is a real little monkey.
My favorite part of the book is when Junie B. meets her baby brother. This book is remomended to anyone who likes books about kids. I still enjoy them. Also, it is still my favorite Junie B. Jones book.

It was cute and funny at the same time.

It’s a funny book and it’s a short book. It’s funny because baby brothers are not monkeys.

Read this when I was a kid....actually my mom did an amazing job of reading this series aloud for my brothers and me, and I am revisiting it and YES it holds up well! Love Junie B

2.5 Stars from me, 5 stars from my 6 year old daughter. Just like the first book I had to "edit" as I read because I don't find it cute that she always says "stupid" "dumb" and how she hates people. So I skipped over those parts and I find it extremely irritating that I have to do that. Also why are all the adults just ignoring her being completely rude? No one says anything or calls her out! It drives me insane! The book would not lose anything by editing all of the inappropriate comments from Junie B.
That being said, the story was funny and made my daughter and I laugh out loud several times. I like that she's so eager to hear the entire story and find out what happens in the next book.

Junie B Jones has a way of misinterpreting the world that makes for great plot twists. In Junie B Jones and a Little Monkey Business, June B takes Grandma’s comment about her mother’s new baby literally. Grandma says that the baby is “the cutest little monkey she ever saw.” In true Junie B Jones style, this makes for some hilarious story telling as Junie B tells her friend about her monkey brother.

Students can follow the Junie B formula as they tell a story where there is a misunderstanding that leads to some funny adventures and finally the moment when the main character realizes or is told the truth. But somehow it all works out OK in the end.

In this case, after June B is taken to the Principal’s office where she gets a lesson in figurative language, she finally gets to meet her real “little monkey” brother who she thinks is as adorable as her Grandma meant he was.