[.ca] Junie B. Jones Is Not a Crook (ISBN 0679883428)

Supper:
This book is supper. She is nice to people sometimes because when she finds a wonderful pen she brings it home, but then she decide to put in the Lost and Found. The last chapter was called I'm Not A Cook. And This was a very good chapter. Try this book. Trust me its very good. Buy it.

Junie B. Jones is Not a Crook:
This book is really good. I think it had 5 stars because it was funny. Her grandpa gave her mittens for no good reason and she wore them to school and then someone stole them.

Junie B Jones Is Not a Crook (#9):
Junie B's grandpa gets her new gloves. But then she loses them! Then, she goes to the lost and found, but they are not there. Then she finds a pen that writes four colors, and she doesn't want to put t in the Lost and Found. Does she find her mittens and give the pen to the Lost and Found? Read it to find out. This book is funny, but it is short. It reminds me of when I bought a big star shaped earring at a garage sale, then one day I wore it to school with a pink heart shaped earring, but when I got inside at recess, my earrings had fallen off. I found the pink one, but I couldn't find the gold star earring. I think somebody took it, and it was never in the Lost and Found. It was my favorite earring and now I'll probably never get one like it and mine had a red star shaped sticker stuck on it, so if I find another it will not be the same. Anyway, this is a good book (...).

Is Not A Crook:
I gave this book five stars because it was really funny. Her grampa baught her a pair of black mittens and a girl stole them and her teacher had to make the girl give them back.

Horrible Language Model For Children:
While this book has a good moral (you should turn in things you find, otherwise it's stealing), the language this book models is awful. Here are some sentences from the book: "And I runned all over the playground. Then she holded my hand. Somebody stoled my mittens. I weared a grin as soon as I saw this wonderful thing. All of a sudden my face lighted up." While some people may think that Junie B. Jones's mangling of past tense verbs is cute, it does not help children learn proper verb tense. Also, there's a nice stereotype in this book where Junie B. Jones is looking for somebody with a tattoo, because that will indicate who the crook is. Parents and teachers, don't even waste your time.