Junie B. Jones and Her Big Fat Mouth

Junie B. Jones and Her Big Fat Mouth
By:  Barbara Park
Illustrated by:  Denise Brunkus
Book Series
Random House Inc.
Copyright 1993

                                                     Junie B. Jones and Her Big Fat Mouth

     It's job day in Junie B.'s kindergarten class and she struggles with what she wants to be. The thing is, she has to come up with something really good that combines painting, having a set of key, and saving people, because she ran her "big fat mouth" on the school bus and told people that's what she was going to do. At one point in the book Junie B. strengthens a type of friendship with the janitor after he saved her from eating a dirty piece of candy and finding her in the book Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus. Junie B. decides that she wants to be a janitor for job day.
     This book is funny and easy to relate to because it is so simple to think of a child who talks all the time. It would be so easy for kids to run their mouths where they set up expectations for themselves. What I really like about this book is that it reminds the reader that all jobs are important and to never give up on yourself. Deep down Junie B. knew that she would be able to find a job that included painting, carrying keys, and saving people and she was able to.