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[quote=Anonymous]I am a grammar stickler, and I expect good behavior from my kids, so I was shocked when my oldest son’s kindergarten teacher read a few Junie B. books aloud during the school year. I was so turned off. However, I did observe her reading a Junie B. book one day and noticed that she laughed at the grammar and rolled her eyes at the occasional use of dumb. The kids ate it up. So I started reading Junie B. to my kids.

My oldest is almost 22 and my youngest is 10. A few in the middle. In the course of all these years I have pretty much been reading Junie B. aloud consistently. They are among my favorite children’s books, and this is what I encourage you to do:

Read the books aloud to your kids. You can even talk about the grammar and the behavior, but the kids generally figure it out on their own. If you read the kindergarten series from the first to last book, you will notice a sweet transition of the characters. The ending of the last book, Graduation Girl, is so sweet that it still makes me tear up every time I read it aloud. If you have not read all the books in the series in order, you won’t really get it.

The stand-out of the first grade books would be “Jingle Bells Batman Smells.” It’s important toI am a grammar stickler, and I expect good behavior from my kids, so I was shocked when my oldest son’s kindergarten teacher read a few Junie B. books aloud during the school year. I was so turned off. However, I did observe her reading a Junie B. book one day and noticed that she laughed at the grammar and rolled her eyes at the occasional use of dumb. The kids ate it up. So I started reading Junie B. to my kids. My oldest is almost 22 and my youngest is 10. A few in the middle. In the course of all these years I have pretty much been reading Junie B. aloud consistently. They are among my favorite children’s books, and this is what I encourage you to do:

The stand-out of the first grade books would be “Jingle Bells Batman Smells.” It’s important to read the books in order. Jingle Bells is one of my favorite children’s holiday books ever, but having context helps a lot.

Barbara Parks was an incredible author who died too young. Her last Junie B. book, turkeys we have loved and eaten, was inserted into the series before her death. In that book, she brings back some of the characters we have not seen in first grade, including “Principal.” Yes, I tear up at that too. I assume the author knew she was dying. I felt as though she was going to end the first grade series with having Junie B. move away and all the emotions that go with that. Sadly, Parks died before the book could be written.

It’s a series worth reading aloud to your kids. There is more there than meets the eye.[/quote]

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