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Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus: 20th-Anniversary Full-Color Edition (Junie B. Jones) (A Stepping Stone Book(TM)) Hardcover – April 24, 2012

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  • Age Range: 6 - 9 years
  • Grade Level: 1 - 4
  • Series: A Stepping Stone Book(TM)
  • Hardcover: 96 pages
  • Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers; 2 Anv edition (April 24, 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0375868410
  • ISBN-13: 978-0375868412
  • Product Dimensions: 5.8 x 0.5 x 8.6 inches
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  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (231 customer reviews)
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1.0 out of 5 starsSomeone explain this series to me..
By DTG on September 10, 2003
Format: Paperback
Because I don't get it. Schools seem to love them - is there some special highly-technical educational matrix that this junk fits into that I need a degree in education to understand? My 1st-grade daughter reads everything, and on her second day her teacher recommended this book. We read it together, and I had to stop every other sentence and talk about how we don't call people stupid, how we don't judge others by the fact that you can beat them up, how you don't deal with being afraid by calling everyone names and hitting them, and how you don't go rummaging through other people's belongings and taking whatever you want. It's ridiculous. Unless the point is to get parents to spend time teaching kids how not to behave - but we get enough of that from real-life. There will be plenty of time for our children to become discriminating readers who know when they're reading a fun book - but at this age,at this stage, they are learning how to behave around others. When these books are encouraged by adults, a 1st-grader can't be blamed for thinking this is encouraged behavior.
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1.0 out of 5 starsThe grammar is completely unacceptable
By Mamma Ro on April 30, 2012
Format: Paperback
There's no excuse for such terrible grammar. Children will develop good grammar and mastery of the English language if they hear it. This book begins with approximately one instance per page of "colloquial" poor grammar on the part of the child. I just can't read that aloud to my children. Even my 3-year-old has nearly perfect English grammar and I don't want her to start mimicking the low-brow lexicon of Junie B Jones.

The book makes reference to school being the place where you don't get to watch TV anymore. My kids watch minimal TV now so that doesn't even make sense to them.

And Junie B Jones says she could "beat up" some boy who seems timid and reserved. The child does not start off with an endearing personality. It's hard enough that kids are going to get exposed to "those kids" when they go to school; I don't need to introduce them to a title character who represents the worst of the worst that they're going to inevitably encounter upon starting kindergarten.

Sorry to be so judgmental but I'd prefer to expose my kids to books that do not cater to the lowest common denominator. Normally I'd give a book more of a chance but when the first chapter of the first book was packed full of objectionable content (grammar and snotty attitude), that's a red flag for me that the rest of the series is not likely to improve.
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1.0 out of 5 starsVery Poor Influence on Its Targeted Readers
By Fr. Charles Erlandson on July 13, 2011
Format: Paperback
I'm delighted that my 5 (almost 6) year old daughter loves to read, and I was thrilled that my wife managed to find some books that are at her reading level and yet tell real, and to some degree, compelling stories.

But after my 16 year old daughter caught a whiff of the books and told me they may not be so great, I read "Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus" for myself. On the surface, it's no worse than what my 5 year old has seen in life before. But the fact is that literature does something to us, more than entertaining us. As I learned in graduate school in English literature and have been learning ever since as a father, teacher, and pastor, literature not only delights but (as Horace said) teaches by delighting.

So what does "Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus" teach?

1. It teaches that hating things is normal and even funny.
"I HATE THIS STUPID DUMB CIRCLE."
"That Jim I hate."
"I hate it in this stupid smelly bus."

2. She calls lots of things stupid.

3. Some of the pictures are pictures of how I want my kids NOT to act: going "Ta Da! Here I am, aren't I cute?", covering her ears and stamping her foot when she doesn't like something, and giving a sassy and pretentious turn of the head back to another child. I've seen this exact pose on my 5 year-old, and now I think I know where it came from!

4. The humor in the book comes mostly from Junie doing things like hiding in the supply closet, wandering the school at will, and invading the nurse's office and dumping out band-aids and playing with crutches and plays with the phone. And, of course, calling 911 and having a fire truck, police car, and ambulance arrive because of the "emergency" she claimed to be having.

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1.0 out of 5 starsI would like to rate it a ZERO
By Cora B on November 4, 2010
Format: Paperback
My son is in kindergarten and the teacher began reading this to his class yesterday. I looked it up and read the first 3/4s of it today and was disgusted. I can't believe all the positive reviews. My son also began saying today that he hates his friend Jake, out of nowhere. He is aware that it is not appropriate or acceptable to say that, but he heard it in the book. The girl in the book uses vulgar language, is obnoxious, rude and disrespectful. It seems to me teachers are trying to dumb down the students and underestimate their intelligence. This is a horrible book.
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1.0 out of 5 starsOh boy...
A Kid's Review on September 28, 2008
Format: Paperback
I loved this book series when i was 7 or 8 i could not put it down now that i am older i cant belive i read this! i was telling my young sister about how cool these books are and i read these reviews and they are so true! she is rude to her classmates and adults and the grammer is horrible please do not read these books, there not worth wasteing your childhood on reading such mean books when there are so many other great ones out there.
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