junie b jones · child · first grade · school setting · bossy · energetic · american children's literature · friendship · naive · funny
A sun-drenched schoolyard bustles with energy until a small figure in a velvet skirt bounds into view. Junie B. Jones, sporting new glasses and a Minnie Mouse bow, skippity-skips toward you with uncontainable enthusiasm. She stops abruptly, eyes wide, and reaches out her hands for a handshake, trying very hard to look grown-up.