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08 March, 2005

Junie B. Jones: Twice as good

If you are lucky enough to have children between the age 5 and up to their young teens, you owe it to yourself to check out the many adventures of Junie B. Jones. They are a hilarious set of stories told first person by a sassy kindergartener (and later, first grader) named, you guessed it, Junie B. Jones. Her grammar is humorously incorrect, but so natural. Barbara Park, the author, is so talented to be able to suck you right into each story and laugh out-loud. I can totally relate to this poor little girl's parents' exasperation at Junie B.'s latest problems.

Maybe it's because I'm an illustrator, but I enjoy the wonderful illustrations by Denise Brunkus just as much as I like the stories. They remind me of the pencil sketches I've seen from Norman Rockwell.

My 6 year old son checked out two of Junie B.'s books from his school library this week. When we saw that both were the same exact story, we asked him why he got two of the same thing. He replied with a sheepish grin, "In case I wanted to read it again."

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I relly like Junie B. Jones.

(this comment was written by my son mentioned in the blog ;)

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