Junie B. Jones's Second Boxed Set Ever! (Books 5-8) | 
| Author: Barbara Park
Creator: Denise Brunkus
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  27 reviews
Sales Rank: 10922
Format: Box Set
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 304
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.3 x 1.1
ISBN: 0375822658
EAN: 9780375822650
ASIN: 0375822658
Publication Date: May 28, 2002
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Junie B Jones Series March 18, 2008
I purchased 4 sets of Junie B Jones books for my daughter to read to her preschool age children. They really hold their interest and have encouraged the 5 year old to be excited about trying to learn to read by himself.
 don't buy don't share March 8, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I first met these Junie B. Jones books when tutoring elementary school students, They horrified me. When a book is presented to a child she assumes as she/he has every right to do, that these books are worthwhile. These books though, are filled with serious grammatical errors, poor punctuation, wrong spelling and slang. Sentence fragments abound in astonishing quantities, confusion in the correct use of parts of speech shows up repeatedly, mixing objects and subjects occurs again and again, and misspellings pop up. Stylistically also, the writing presents a poor example for young students to follow. A large proportion of the sentences commence with 'And', while the majority of paragraphs contain no more than one sentence each. The writing is choppy in a misguided effort to simplify the language, but the result of having sentence fragment after sentence fragment ends up confusing meaning. Do not use these books for children whose primary language is not English. Do not use them if you want your students of any origin to learn how to write well and read well-crafted prose. The presentation of a book to a child is a serious matter, for as you do it, the child assumes you are presenting something good, of which you and the school approve. They believe that they can safely emulate the kind of writing they read there. Excellent books throng in the market which commit none of the grammatical offenses of the Junie B. Jones books, and yet are funny and light-hearted, with delightful characters.Junie B. herself is depicted as an abusive young lady, happy to treat acquaintances and even friends and family with offensive dismissal and verbal abuse. She's never given any consequences for these behaviours. I personally do not like the example Junie B. sets, but it is the murder of the English tongue that I cannot bear. Books of this low standard are why neither Johnnie nor Junie can write.
A whole lotta love there February 20, 2008
My granddaughter loves these books. She is a first grader and really loves reading to me and she is getting good at it.
 hooked on books still December 30, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This was great!! My daughter absolutely loves these books. She is only 8 yrs old, but will sit for hours reading them. How many kids ask for books for Christmas!!
 My almost 5 year old daughter LOVES Junie B. Stories December 2, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
But I am having a hard time approving of some of the content. The stories are really cute and fun. Junie B. is a character that kids can relate to and laugh with. When my husband and I read them we have to edit some of the name calling, bad grammar, and story lines. We don't want to introduce our daughter to boyfriends and boy-girl relationships before she's ready. We don't tolerate name calling in our home and Junie B. does a lot of name calling in several of her books. When the grammar is just bad I also edit the reading.
So...while I really appreciate the stories and the comedic story lines I don't think I'm going to encourage Junie B. books anymore. I'd like to find something else with equally as fun stories but without the previously mentioned hangups.
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