# Junie B Jones and Stupid Stinking Cancer **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 18, 2013, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/junie-b-jones-and-stupid-stinking-cancer/674189 "2013-11-18T18:06:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2013, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/junie-b-jones-and-stupid-stinking-cancer/674189/1 "2013-11-18T18:06:50Z")
[Barbara Park, children’s author, dies at 66](http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/junie-b-jones-children-author-barbara-park-dies-article-1.1520219) My kids will be very sad to hear this. So am I. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2013, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/junie-b-jones-and-stupid-stinking-cancer/674189/2 "2013-11-18T18:13:08Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > [Barbara Park, children’s author, dies at 66](http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/junie-b-jones-children-author-barbara-park-dies-article-1.1520219) My kids will be very sad to hear this. So am I. That’s a darn shame. Junie B. is a great character - I enjoyed the books as much as my child did. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2013, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/junie-b-jones-and-stupid-stinking-cancer/674189/3 "2013-11-18T18:17:35Z")
Sad news. My son was really into those books a few years back. ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2013, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/junie-b-jones-and-stupid-stinking-cancer/674189/4 "2013-11-18T20:09:53Z")
The books are brilliant. My personal favorite moment is when Junie B. watches a TV movie called **When Ponies Attack**. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2013, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/junie-b-jones-and-stupid-stinking-cancer/674189/5 "2013-11-18T20:34:18Z")
Aw, I didn’t even know she was sick. My daughter loved these books when she was in kindergarten and first grade but then she outgrew them. My son is in first grade now and I read one to him about 4 years ago but he didn’t really get into it. Maybe I can read them to him again. ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2013, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/junie-b-jones-and-stupid-stinking-cancer/674189/6 "2013-11-18T21:28:56Z")
Oh my little girl LOVES Junie B. so much. I have to limit her though because she mimics her, which will not do for a third grader. ---
**Author:** ![D18](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@D18](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D18)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2013, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/junie-b-jones-and-stupid-stinking-cancer/674189/7 "2013-11-19T02:34:50Z")
Cancer is such a dumb bunny. ---
**Author:** ![lorene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/65b543/32.png) [@lorene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorene)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2013, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/junie-b-jones-and-stupid-stinking-cancer/674189/8 "2013-11-19T03:55:34Z")
☹ Phillip Johnny Bob does not like this. My daughter and I had such a great time reading those books. That was back when I still read to her at night and we always needed just one more chapter. I was forever checking to see if she wrote just one more book, but I guess there goes that idea. **Rushgeekgirl** , we still slip into Junie B Jones-speak on occasion. Also, it doesn’t seem possibly that your girl is that old already! Time flies! ---
**Author:** ![Hermione](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/cdc98d/32.png) [@Hermione](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hermione)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2013, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/junie-b-jones-and-stupid-stinking-cancer/674189/9 "2013-11-19T17:14:23Z")
Damn shame indeed. She was a fellow South Jersey native–born in Mount Holly–and one of my coworkers at the library went to school with her. I put up a memorial book display. I wish I could do more.