Junie B. Jones & the Mushy Gushy Valentine

Barbara Park

Today at school, my teacher had a 'nouncement to make.

A 'nouncement is the school word for listen to me ...... and I

MEAN it.

My teacher's name is Mrs. She has another name, too. But

I just like Mrs. and that's all.

Mrs. told us that we were going to have a special day in room

nine. And it is called Valentime's Day.

She said that valentimes are special cards about friendship.

And all of us in Room Nine are going to give them to each other!

One of the main reasons why I think this writing is poor is, because ever since I was little I would read Junie B. Jones, and because of all the grammatical errors she purposely made to give you Junie's character made my writing and speaking as low as it could go. She has a good plot line for a child's book, but all the mistakes she purposely makes can ruin a way a kid learns proper grammar. For instance, because she say's valentimes instead of valentines, when I was younger I would get confused and always say valentimes. Other wise is she could fix her errors I think she could make a very good child's author.