[Junie B. Jones is a Beauty Shop Guy] (By: Barbara Park) [published: April, 1999]

Junie B. Jones #11

by Barbara Park

What's the bestest job ever? A beauty shop guy, that's what! And Junie B. Jones is going to be one when she grows up. But first she needs a little practice. And a few volunteers. Like her bunny slippers. And her dog. And maybe even...herself? Is Junie B. on her way to a great new career? Or is she about to have the worst hair day ever?

Genres: Childrens, Fiction, Chapter Books, Humor, Realistic Fiction, Juvenile, Middle Grade

Unknown Binding

First published January 1, 1998

About the author

Barbara Lynne Park was an American author of children's books.

Reviews

[Bookslut · Rating 1 out of 5]

Rotten, and what a shame. These books could be mega funny and perfect for sassy little kids, but the decision to write in first person with 'childlike' grammar was insufferable to me. I wouldn't mind if the dialogue was handled that way, but to read a whole book, dialoge and narration, like a three year old is too repellent to me. Also, Junie B. talks and seems to think just like my three year old, but she's supposed to be in kindergarten. There's a lot of language development and maturing that happens in those two years, and since my house is a living case-study on this subject, I didn't find it very believable. She is also one super-naughty kid, and I felt like she was feeding devilry to my kid. I could feel Iris getting naughtier as we read, like a simmering boil. Pass.

[Kira Simion · Rating 3 out of 5]

If you ONLY read this book series to your child, then I can see why you might complain about them learning their grammar and English syntax from this. However, there should be no problem if it’s but one in an amalgam of stories.

[Christine · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was soooo perfect to read to my four year old daughter who decided to trim her hair last Saturday.

[HeavyReader · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is the best of the Junie B. Jones books that I have read so far. This one is more believable than the others. Sure, I can believe a little kid could get obsessed with cutting hair and disobey her parents and chop up her own hair. Although why Junie B's parents were dumb enough to trust her with regular scissors and not get her the special kindergarten kind that only cut paper, I will never know.

Something that bothers me about Junie B. is that she acts in a really obnoxious way, and then she gets a special treat. For example in this book, after cutting the dog's fur and having her scissors taken away from her and her parents telling her no more hair cutting, she chops up her own hair. Do her parents make her live with the consequences? No, they take her right off to the beauty shop and she gets a fabulous new hair cut! Hmmmph! Junie B. better be glad I'm not her mother, because Mamma Guidry does not have any extra money for hair cuts for kids who butcher their own hair after they have been told NO!

[Susan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fun!

[anna grace · Rating 5 out of 5]

an absolute classic

[Erynne Dehler · Rating 3 out of 5]

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.

[Meredith]

dont EVER cut your own hair!

[Lee]

The ubiquitous childhood urge to cut your own hair.

[Jess · Rating 4 out of 5]

Every time we read a Junie B. book, it makes me so sad that we didn’t get to see her grow up. Barbara Park was such a special writer.

[Nick · Rating 1 out of 5]

I was asked to read this by a customer who didn't like the grammar and language.

I think she was right, the voice is fantastic for Junie B., but this isn't the spoken word, this is writing and we should be holding our kids to higher standards. This isn't a book for high school students who are grasping the concepts for voice, but for young and growing readers. For many, this is their first journey into chapter books.

We are presenting them with broken grammar and no concept of why it is broken like that. It isn't just in the dialogue, but is throughout the book. How am I supposed to convince a kid that they should learn to use proper language when this is what they are reading and given to read in class no less.

We hold this up as a classic in children's literature, and then convince kids that this isn't how to write. It doesn't make sense.

Junie B. is also disrespectful, annoying, and destructive. She doesn't listen to her parents, can't control herself, and yells at her grandparents.

We live in a world full of people who think and act like Junie B. Jones, maybe we need to give more to our kids, and ask more from them in return.

Try Hatchet or Where the Red Fern Grows, for a little younger, the Magic Tree House books are a lot better than this.

[Kaitlyn · Rating 2 out of 5]

Junie B. Jones is a book series that children love to read because of Parks use of humor in her characters. "Junie B. Jones Is a Beauty Shop Guy" is a book about a little girl (Junie) who goes with her father to get his hair cut, which inspires her to be a "beauty shop guy". So she begins to practice her skills on her furry slippers, stuffed animals, her dog, and eventually she practices on her own hair. This book would be very enjoyable for little girls, and even boys, and is a good transitional book for developing readers. One thing that I did not like about this book was the irregular use of grammar sometimes when Junie is thinking or speaking. Some examples include "I holded it real tight" and "you have the beautifulest long white fur I ever even saw". This irregular use of grammar causes children to think that it is okay to speak that way and may have an effect on the way they write and/or speak.
(count this book as my popular series book)

[Karenna 🧡⭐️ · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is one of the Junie B. Jones books that I remember the most, and one that I remember really loving! This book in the series is about Junie B. deciding that she wants to work at a beauty parlor after her first trip there. She realizes that she needs a little bit of practice, so she uses her slippers, her dog, and even her own hair to practice, and the results are, well, disastrous! I remember thinking this book was really funny and I had a hard time putting it down, as I did with most of the other books in the series. I gave this book four stars because of how much incorrect grammar there is within it. Although this doesn't necessarily bother me, I do understand why some parents wouldn't approve of these books for their children. With that being said, this is another book that I would have available in my classroom for students to read on their own time, but it isn't one that I would read aloud to my students.

[C.E. G · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is the first book I'm reading in my early chapter book binge this winter. Fast and easy way to beef up my readers' advisory skills.

Junie B Jones is really quite funny, in a way that I can appreciate as an adult as well. I know some adults are wary about her "incorrect" grammar, but, as this article contends, there are actually important grammatical and linguistic lessons to be learned from the series.

[Lexie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Who was in the book?
Junie B Jones, Grace her friend, Lucielle also her friend and her mom.

What happened in this book?
So, Junie B Jones went to a beauty shop with her dad. She met one of the managers and they both had name tags. The managers name was Maxine. Junie B Jones was the managers helper. She held a towel and swept the hairs on the floor and accidentally swept someones foot.

What was your favorite part?
When Junie B Jones finally got to be a beauty shop manager.

(Answers dictated by Lexie)

[Yasmine J. · Rating 5 out of 5]

This spectacular book was incredible!! It made me laugh so hard I almost cried.It was about a girl named Junie B. Jones and she goes to a barber shop with her dad and let's just say it didn't go so well. I learned to be careful when you go to a barber shop.I would have reccomended this book to me as a little kid.

[♥☆.*.~L0r3na~.*.☆♥ BANDA the PANDA!!!;) · Rating 5 out of 5]

Junie B Jones wants to be a person that can cut peoples hair. She practices on her dogs hair. She then cuts her own hair by accident.

[Lulus · Rating 5 out of 5]

I IS A FUNNY BOOK

[Natasha · Rating 4 out of 5]

Junie B. is at it again. She's quite determined to be a beauty shop guy and with "years and years and years of practice", she could possibly be one.

[Kate Brown]

Read this for a reading challenge, re read a childhood fave. Junie B was my fave as a kid! I remember liking this one because of her cutting her own hair on the cover and little kid me did that multiple times 🤣

[Danielle · Rating 4 out of 5]

Having experienced her own hair cutting mishaps, Alma loved this as a read aloud. I did find myself correcting Junie B’s improper grammar as I read...I couldn’t help myself 🙃.

[Stacy Renee (LazyDayLit) · Rating 3 out of 5]

Junie B. Jones decides she is going to be a Beauty Shop Guy when she accompanies her dad to get his hair cut.

Read to my daughter.

[Ella · Rating 5 out of 5]

Who doesn't love Junie B.?

[Bri S · Rating 3 out of 5]

My daughter loved this. I really hope she doesn’t try to cut her own hair now, though. 😬

[Conley · Rating 5 out of 5]

"I like about the book that Junie B. Jones wanted to be a hairstylist and at the back of the book I like that it was starting to be good." -Conley, age 7 (typed as spoken 🤣)

[Britney Johnson🎀🧋💕✨ · Rating 3 out of 5]

⭐️3/4 My students helped me pick out this read. They know I adore Junie so, any time there is silent reading I read with them💙

[Elise]

Amelia absolutely loved this one

[Lauren Taylor]

Read for INFO 5510

[Hailey ⋆｡°✩ · Rating 5 out of 5]

when i was 7 i twisted a circular brush onto the front of my hair to look like a unicorn horn and it got so stuck my mom had to bring me to a salon to get it cut out

[Emily · Rating 5 out of 5]

5 stars according to my 6 year old