Junie B. Jones Is A Beauty Shop Guy (2010) - Plot & Excerpts
Junie B. Jones is a Beauty Shop Guy is the eleven book in the Junie B. Jones series by Barbara Park, and illustrated by Denise Brunkus. We are first introduced to Junie B. in this book as she is waking up one morning, and decides to change her name, to a "brand-new different name!". She rushes into the kitchen, where her mother is feeding her baby brother, Ollie, and her father is reading the paper, to announce her new name. She climbs up in her chair and shouts her new name "Pinkie Glady Gutzman!" She explains that pink is a lovely color and Glady Gutzman is the snack lady at school, so who wouldn't want to be named after her. Her father doesn't really agree with that, saying it's a very long name. Well Junie B. decides she will need a name tag for her new name then. Once the name tag is taken care of, father announces he has to go get his hair cut, but mother reminds him she is leaving also to take the baby to the doctor so Junie B. will have to go along with him. Junie B. and her father arrive at the beauty shop and meet Maxine, father's hair dresser, she allows Junie B. to help. Junie B. holds the fluffy towel for her, but sneezes in it. Then Maxine lets Junie B. sweep the hair with the broom but Junie B. sweeps over another hairdressers feet, hurting her. Junie B. and her father leave after this and Junie B. says in the car on the way home that she would like to be a beauty shop guy like Maxine someday, but father reminds her you need "years and years and years " of practice. Once home Junie B. pretend to take a nap but instead gets out her scissors and trims the fur on her rabbit slippers, it doesn't go so well, they were bald after, so she hides them under her bed hoping the fur will go back. The rabbit slipper fur did not grow back though, which upset Junie B. Her friend Grace noticed she was upset and asked why, Junie B. told her about the slippers and Grace told Junie B. about how her aunt said she could be a shampoo girl and maybe Junie B. could be one too. Well once Junie B. got home from school, she ran to her room, found her fuzzy teddy and went to the bathroom to wash his fur. This did not go as she planned either, so she wrapped teddy in a towel and hide him under the bed with the bald rabbit slippers. The failure with teddy upset her, until her dog, Tickle, came into her room, and Junie B. got an idea. Tickle's fur was tangled and matted so she thought why not practice on him. Well Tickles haircut from Junie B. did not turn out as planned either, it was choppy and a mess. As she heard her mother coming down the hall she tried to hide Tickle under the bed with the rest of her practice subjects but he would not go, Junie B. then put a sweater and hat on the dog. When mother came in her room Junie B. ran to the backyard. Mother chased her down and Junie B. got in trouble for trimming Tickles hair, and her scissors were taken forever. The next morning though Junie B. got out her extra scissors and cut her own her, thinking people hair would be tamer and easier to cut than dog fur. Well this wasn't so, and Junie B. had to fib and were three hats to school that day. Her teacher noticed of course and made Junie B. tell her what happened, but allowed her to wear one hat all day to hide her hair. After school Junie B.'s father picked her up and was surprised by the hat, but after removing it understood what had happened and took her to Maxine to receive a professional haircut. It was the best hair Junie B. had ever seen! The Junie B. Jones series could be about any kindergartner, they always depict real life situations that children get themselves into. This was about cutting hair reminded me personally of some of my students at the after school program, because we do have a kindergartner whose mother is a hairdresser and she has tried to show her own "skills" on another student. Luckily that situation did not turn out as bad as Junie B.'s. I think the illustrations are placed at very good moments in the story and provide a great visual to those moments. The illustrations show Junie B. interacting with many different characters, usually all in a different way, from trying to hide her dog Tickles to yelling at her grandfather through her bedroom door. Junie B. is a very animated character and the illustrations show this very well, even though they are only done in black and white. I would do this book as a read aloud, maybe to introduce my class to the series or do the whole series throughout the school year with my class. I would use with grades kindergartner (since Junie B. is one) to second grade. This series is easy to read and would make a great first chapter and series books for students to get into.
Book Information:The genre of this book is comedy and humor and is written for grades first, second, and third.In Junie B.’s next adventure she wants to become a beauty shop guy. After going to the hair salon with her father, Junie B. Jones is able to watch a beautician cut her dad’s hair. The hair cutter lets Junie B. Jones help her clean up the floor. Junie B. Jones goes home and practices on multiple items including the dog, and some slippers, before turning the scissors onto her own hair to practice cutting. Junie B. Jones causes a commotion as always in this chapter book. Instructional Information:Students could learn about different jobs after reading this novel. Parents could come in and talk about their careers, and students could find out how the adults got the jobs that they have. This would teach them about planning for the future. Contextual Information: The themes of this book are jobs, fashion, and working. This book is more geared toward females since the main character is a little girl. Also, I feel that girls would like this book because they can relate the things that Junie B. gets herself into. Since Junie B. is a white female race and ethnicity is addressed in this book.Park, B., & Brunkus, D. (1998). Junie B. Jones is a beauty shop guy. New York: Random House.
What do You think about Junie B. Jones Is A Beauty Shop Guy (2010)?
I love these books by Barbara Park! Junie B. Jones Is a Beauty Shop Guy is the eleventh book in this series. This is a fiction beginner chapter book filled with lots of humor and crazy ideas. I would recommend this book for second graders and older. This book starts off with Junie attending the barber shop with her Dad, becoming obsessed with the features of the shop, and lending a helping hand to the beautician that is cutting her fathers hair. Junie B decides that she wants to become a beautician and decides that she might need a little practice as her father had previously told her. Junie B starts "practicing" on her favorite bunny slippers and stuffed animals and realizes the hair is not going to grow back, She then turns then turns the scissors on her puppy at home, then on her own hair! Junie attends school the next day with several hats on to cover up her new hair do. Once she realizes what she's done, she confesses to her teacher at school that she might need some help from an ACTUAL beautician to fix her up.
—Erica Johnson
In this book Junie B. Jones starts by going with her father to get a trim at the beauty shop. Junie B. thinks it's pretty cool and she could be a beauty shop guy. Her dad tells her that it takes years and years of practice, so she figures she better get a head start. She practices on her bunny slippers and doesn't do such a great job, and discovers their fur doesn't grow back. She then talks with her friend who sometimes gets to help shampoo people's hair with her aunt. Junie B. is inspired again. The dog's cut doesn't work so well and she gets in big trouble. But fake fur, and dog fur, they aren't the same as human hair and now she has some practice under her belt. The picture on the cover of the book gives a big clue as to what happens next.Junie B. is a fun loving, curious little girl. She has a younger brother, parents who love her, and grandparents who spend a lot of time with her too. Her parents do take away her scissors, but she has an extra pair they didn't know about. Junie B. doesn't try to be bad but this story shows that sometimes her curiosity takes her places that she really shouldn't go. She does sort of learn from her mistakes, but she doesn't always grasp the lessons the adults in her life try to teach her.I would recommend this book to any child in the 3rd-5th grade
—Andrea Ference
Junie B Jones is a Beauty Shop Guy is about a young girl who finds out who she wants to be when she grows up, a beauty shop guy. When she first starts out she practices on her stuffed animals and when their hair does not grow back she practices on her dog. When her dogs hair does not grow back she thinks her mother and father are going to be really upset and so she hides them under her bed. When her mother finds them she takes Junie’s scissors away so she cannot cut her stuffed animals hair again. What she does not know is that Junie had a second pair hiding in one of her desk drawers. She ends up cutting her own hair and messes it all up and she does not tell her parents. Her grandpa is watching her that morning and after she messes up she puts on a hat and tells her grandpa it is crazy hat day today so her grandpa lets her wear it. When she gets to school her teacher asks her what's up and she told her teacher everything and that she wanted to be a beauty shop guy and that she was practicing. After school her dads picks her up and sees what happened and takes her to the beauty shop and the hair stylists fixes her hair. When her hair is finally done she likes it a lot and decides to stay in the dream of being a beauty shop guy.Junie is a crazy, outgoing, six year old kindergartner who loves to speak her mind. She says what she wants to and she acts whatever she feels like it. Sometimes she gets carried away and does before she acts. When she cuts her hair in the book she feels really upset after she sees the end result. When that happened she felt scared of what the kids at school were going to think.I would recommend this book to elementary students. I would do that because its their age level and the main character could be the same age as the reader. They could really feel reminded what they could act like. They would probably like this series a lot because they could connected with the main character. I would rate this book a three out of five stars because I liked it a lot and it was a very easy book to read.
—Erynne Dehler
