Park, Barbara (1992). Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus. New York: Random House.
Junie B. Jones is a hard character to NOT fall in love with! (My kindergarten kids always loved this series as a read-aloud). Junie is a sweet yet feisty kindergarten student who is faced with a big problem. She does NOT want to ride the school bus home on her first day of school. She hates everything about the bus and is scared even more about her afternoon bus ride when her best friend Lucille tells her that meanie kids will pour chocolate milk on her head on the way home. Junie B. solves her problem by hiding from everyone after school so she doesn't have to get on the bus. After some adventures in the school, she realizes she might have made a bad choice. She gets even more worried when the police and firefighters show up at the school to look for her!!
The book is written in first person by Junie B. Jones herself. Author Barbara Park does a great job making it sound so realistic and uses vocabulary like a real kindergarten kid would! Kids can relate so well because many of them have felt the way Junie B. feels (and expresses) in her books. I know I have!!
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