Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus (Junie B. Jones #1) [Import] [ペーパーバック]

一度読み出したら止まらないのが、この『ジュニー B ジョーンズ』シリーズだ。第1巻は、幼稚園に行くために、はじめてのスクールバスに乗るジュニーの物語。シリーズが続くにつれて彼女の成長が見られ、無事入学した小学校での学園生活がストーリーの中心となる。
自己主張が強い女の子ジュニーは、そういった日常生活や学園生活のなかでの事件や、人との関わりを通して、さまざまなものを見たり感じたりしながら成長してゆく。
口癖や等身大のジュニーの言葉がポンポン出てくるので、同年代の女の子の話をこっそり聞いてしまったような新鮮さがある。(か)
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Remember when it was scary to go to school? 'Cause it was your first day and you didn't know anything. Meet Junie B. Jones, kindergartner. She's so scared of the school bus and the meanies on it that when it's time to go home, she doesn't.

One of the initial titles released under the First Stepping Stone imprint, chapter books aimed at newly independent readers and arranged in series, Park's ( Skinnybones ) jolly caper is the first installment to feature Junie B., a feisty almost-six-year-old who is not at all happy about riding the bus on the first day of kindergarten. In fact, she doesn't like a single thing about this vehicle: not the kids who get on it ("Loud kids. And some of them were the kind who look like meanies"); not the door ("If it closes on you by accident, it will cut you in half, and you will make a squishy sound"); and not the black smoke it emits ("It's called bus breath, I think"). Other equally candid, on-target perceptions fill Junie B.'s first-person narrative, which is peppered with reader-involving questions ("Only guess what?"; " 'Cause guess why?") that help to propel the story at a whiz-bang pace. When a classmate tells Junie B. that kids will pour chocolate milk on her head on the way home, the spunky child finds a way to avoid the dreaded bus. Park convinces beginning readers that Junie B.
- and reading--are lots of fun. Ages 6-9.
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Illus. in black-and-white . Meet Junie B. who tells in her own words the

hilarious story of how she gets locked in school after her first day of

kindergarten. "It's hard for anyone to resist Junie B."--Booklist. "It's

a real hoot!"--School Library Journal. "A genuinely funny, easily read

story."--Kirkus.

"It's hard for anyone to resist Junie B."--Booklist.

"It's a real hoot!"--School Library Journal.

"A genuinely funny, easily read story."--Kirkus.

Barbara Park is one of today's funniest and best-loved writers for middle graders. Her novels, which include Dear God, HELP!!! Love Earl; Skinnybones; The Kid in the Red Jacket; and Mick Harte Was Here have won numerous children's book awards. Barbara thinks that the wonderful thing about writing humor is that she is able to deal with serious issues in a more lighthearted way. Barbara's fans always want to know whether or not her characters are based on her own children (she has two sons) -- in fact, they are not. But having her sons has made it easier for her to know how kids talk and think. What matters most to Barbara is that her books are bringing a few smiles to her readers.

Barbara lives in Paradise Valley, Arizona, with her husband, Richard. She holds a B.S. from the University of Alabama.