What do You think about Junie B., First Grader: Toothless Wonder (2003)?
Title: "Junie B., First Grader:Toothless Wonder"Author: Barbara ParkPublisher: Random House Books for Young ReadersPub. Date: 2003Genre: Realistic Fiction/Chapter BookGrades: 2-5This story is about a girl named Junie B. Jones and her losing a front top tooth. The teacher told her that this is a very special thing to lose a top front tooth. Junie B. will be the first in her class to lose this tooth. At first she felt that it was such an honor until she worries about how she would look once it com
—Kimberlyn
Barbara Park does a wonderful job with bringing such fun and animation to a child's new experiences like loosing her first tooth, as Junie B. does in this book! Toothless Wonder allows me to relive that feeling of loosing my first tooth again, and so much more fun. Junie B. experiences her first loose tooth with some bumps in the road such as Grandpa wiggling her tooth and expediting its removal, as well as her reluctance at first to leave her tooth under the pillow for the Tooth Fairy (why would the Tooth Fairy want her old tooth?) The drawings by Denise Brunkus compliments the story beautifully, with Junie B. making silly faces. One drawing that sticks to my mind is Junie B. dancing a special jive when she realizes she lost a tooth and her baby brother Ollie just gained a tooth, just like "recycling"! Barbara Park's story keeps the young reader turning the pages, as well as encouraging learning and the power to question. I recommend this series to children of all ages, especially beginning readers.
—Tiffany
When reading this book, I was flashing back to when my teacher would read chapter books out loud to us toward the end of the day. In this book, Junie B. Jones's is the first student to lose her tooth in Room One. She is terrified to leave her tooth with the tooth fairy, because she thinks its the "tooth witch". She takes her spit cup to class on Monday after the weekend and shows the children and then shows them her missing whole. Her teacher gave her a gold star for loosing her tooth. In the end, Junie B. Jones's ends up believing in the tooth fairy and her baby brother Ollie gets a new tooth.I think this book would be good for the last Kindergarten year into the First Grade possibly Second Grade year. It would help children with loosing teeth for the first time and what to semi expect. Even though people don't always do the same thing for the loosing teeth so it would be more of a possible new cultural experience to some children.
—Amber
