Junie B. Jones's First Boxed Set Ever! (Books 1-4)
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Outrageously sassy Junie B. Jones will make young kids crave their daily dose of reading. And with this handy four-volume boxed set, whether they start with Junie B. Jones and Some Sneaky Peeky Spying or Junie B. Jones and Her Big Fat Mouth, readers will laugh out loud at Junie B.'s hilarious mishaps and breathtakingly horrible gramm ... review details
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| I met these Junie B. Jones books through tutoring elementary school students whose primary languages are not English, and I cannot think of a better way to mis-teach the English language. When a book is presented to a young learner the child assumes as she/he has every right to do, that these books are worthy. The Junie B. Jones books however, are filled with serious grammatical errors, punctuation misuse, wrong spellings and slang. Sentence fragments abound in astonishing quantities on every page, confusion in the correct use of parts of speech shows up repeatedly, mixing objects and subjects occurs again and again, and (less commonly,) 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. To address a previous reviewer's concerns, I personally do not like the example Junie B. sets in her selfish, rude and cruel behaviours, 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. |
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