Sunday Salon: The BAFAB Post

By way of celebrating BAFAB (Buy a Friend a Book Week), I'll go with the girls to Barnes & Noble today to buy a handful of Junie B. Jones books for Melissa's classroom (first grade). We've been reading them of late, and have made it through some seven or eight of them, with a pile left to go. I had read a bunch to Rebecca back in the day as well. And rereading them I'm reminded of what I so liked about them. Many of them are just perfectly plotted little gems, both funny and moving.

And, I say again, funny. That is, I think they're funny: not a page goes by when I don't appreciate some clever turn of phrase, and sometimes they're laugh-out-loud funny. But if I snicker occasionally, Melissa sometimes erupts in a fit of giggles that cannot be easily quelled. How great is that?

   

Comments

[Holly Jahangiri]

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I am not a huge fan of the Junie B. Jones series, but it's a personal bias: When my son, William, was in kindergarten, his teacher read one aloud to the class. There was a character referred to as "Crybaby William." Everyone thought that was a riot - except my son, when they started calling HIM that. There's nothing funny about name-calling and bullying.

[Debra Hamel]

2.

That is unfortunate--though not a fault of the book itself.