Junie B. Jones Has a Monster Under Her Bed / Barbara Park / Novel

Junie B. Jones Has a Monster Under Her Bed



Author: Barbara Park

Illustrator: Denise Brunkus
Genre: Novel
Awards: N/A
Grade level: K-3

Junie B. Jones is a hilarious kindergartner who can make anyone laugh. In this book, she gets told by Paulie Allen Puffer that there really are monsters under her bed. He even proves it by saying that sometimes there is monster drool on Junie's pillows and that cannot be from her because she is not a baby. Junie has to find a way to get rid of the monsters. She tries just about everything, but nothing is working until she finally comes up with a way that will even scare the monsters off. She got her class picture back and it looked so bad that she put it under her bed, and it scared those monsters right away.

The illustrations of this book are in black and white and look like they have been sketched. There are very limited amounts of illustration in this book, which helps the reader transition from picture story books to chapter books and novels.

Reading this book to children from kindergarten to third grade would be great because the younger children would be able to relate because they are Junie B.'s age. The older children would enjoy it just as much because the humor in it is enjoyable for any age. If I were to read this book in my classroom, I would ask the students to their own story of how they would get rid of a monster under their bed.