Junie B. Jones - Audiobook

Park, Barbara. Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus. Audiobook Read by Lana Quintal.

Junie B. is a spunky kindergartner excited to go to school for the first time. Her mother takes her to school to meet her new teacher, whom Junie B. refers to as Mrs., and gets to see her new classroom in room 9. The teacher asks her mother if she will be riding the bus and her mother replies yes, which rattles Junie B's world. Junie B. is not excited about riding the stupid, smelly bus. Once she gets on the bus she doesn't have anyone to sit with and then a stupid boy steps all over her beautiful dress that looks like velvet. She decides that she doesn't like riding that bus. Her first day of school went great, and she even made a new friend and everything was going great until she learns that some "meanies" that ride the bus home pour chocolate milk on kid's heads. Junie B. makes up her mind that she is not going to ride the bus home, and decides to hide in the supply closet. After eveyone leaves the school, she ventures out and explores the school in a new light, playing in the media room, or library as she previously called it, playing in the nurses' office until she has an "mergency" and needs to go to the restroom. She calls 911 and police rescue her.

The reader will be immediately brought back to their first day of school as they listen to this story. The plot is believable and realistic as descriptions of her classroom will jolt memories of every reader's kindergarten classroom. Junie B's character is a firecracker, and urges the reader to fall in love with her creativity, and yet vunerability. Lara Quintal does a fantastic job of narrating the story. She creates different voices for each of the characters and her pitch and tone perfectly match that of this feisty little girl.