Will and I read the first chapter of Winnie the Pooh on the ipad tonight and it was so much fun that I went looking for other ipad chapter-books-but-still-have-pictures books. Because I need a break from “The Dancing Bears” (The Berenstein Bears). I remembered Junie B Jones, and got Junie B Jones and a Little Monkey Business, which I remembered as being hysterical.
Except it made Will cry. Because she referred to her fetus of a baby sibling as a ‘dumb bunny baby’ and said ‘i don’t think I’m going to like this dumb baby’ and ‘I don’t know its stupid dumb name’ and ‘I’m going to be the boss of this baby’ and after having a little meltdown and informing me that he did NOT like “your mean words book” he agree that we could continue reading, but only if “you promise not to read the mean words and only the nice words.”
Will does not take the verbal abuse of babies lightly. I don’t think his sense of humor is really up to the task of the Junie B series. (He’s also baffled by “The Book and Movie Eloise.” He asked me this morning randomly “Is the Movie and Book Eloise…good?”)
