Shipwrecked (Junie B. Jones - No. 23) - Junie B.

It would be better if Barbara Parks stays away from History and other factual areas. Better if the books are kept primarily to day to day activities and emotions/ feelings thereof. These are Barbara Parks' strengths. When looking for starter chapter books I mistakenly bought the whole collection for my daughter. The repeated use of spelling and grammar errors was too much for me but my daugther seems to like these books than the other much better ones I bought (magic tree house). Anyway when I read to her I make sure I read MTH :-).
Apart from the grammar issues this particular book has a very glaring factual error. Columbus was trying to find a sea route to enable Iberia to gain speed in the spice trade (East Indies). The book says he was trying to find a route to China!! Please stay away from facts is my hope.

My daughter loves Junie B. Jones! She loves the books so much she has felt the need to read them out loud to me since I don't have time to read them myself. They're cute and surprisingly funny, and this book is no exception. It's a great price, too--it would cost more to go to the movies than to buy a Junie B. book.

I started reading this book with my daughter, she borrowed it from the library at school. I got to page 3 where it read "A boy named Roger throwed up on the floor! It was the disgustingest thing I ever saw" & I told my daughter not to take out any more books from this series from the library. Bad grammar and gross topics! If it wasn't a library book, I would have thrown it away, because it is Trash!

When I first discovered the Junie B Jones series, I thought it was a great set of books for my daughter to read. Then I really sat down with her when she was reading them, and the books are AWFUL. The grammar and word choices are a terrible example for a child to be exposed to when reading. I understand that the books are an accurate example of how a kindergartener and a first grader may speak, but I prefer my children hear and read the correct use of words as an example of how speak. We switched to Beverly Cleary classics which are just as entertaining and grammatically correct.

I can't imagine more inappropriate reading for a 5-8 year old. These books are loaded with poor grammar, individual words that are too advanced and, on top of that, they encourage bad behavior. Avoid this series.

I didn't really enjoy this Junie B., First Grader book as much as the other ones. I read the book to my little sister, and she thought that Columbus REALLY did swim to America. Junie B said it herself: YOU CAN'T CHANGE HISTORY! Yet Columbus didn't swim to the U.S., but the Junie B's class "changed history". I'm twelve and it confused me why Junie B took the blame, and seemed to make herself look good to do that and wanted people to thank her from taking the blame to make her look good. She is such a show-off, and Renée (my little sister)got mixed-up and thought the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria really did shipwreck. And she didn't get Junie B's grammer/speech.

I didn't really enjoy this Junie B., First Grader book as much as the other ones. I read the book to my little sister, and she thought that Columbus REALLY did swim to America. Junie B said it herself: YOU CAN'T CHANGE HISTORY! Yet Columbus didn't swim to the U.S., but the Junie B's class "changed history". I'm twelve and it confused me why Junie B took the blame, and seemed to make herself look good to do that and wanted people to thank her from taking the blame to make her look good. She is such a show-off, and Renée (my little sister)got mixed-up and thought the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria really did shipwreck. And she didn't get Junie B's grammer/speech.