The Society for the Promotion of Good Grammar endorses Junie B. Jones.

From the SPOGG Blog*:

For the record, SPOGG is a huge fan of Junie B. Jones. Parents who refuse to read it because of the grammar are missing serious hilarity, as well as the opportunity to point out the errors and talk about language with their kids. Kids would much rather you correct a book character's grammar than their own, so it's actually a terrific teaching opportunity.

What's more, it's brilliant writing. The author, Barbara Park, captures the language and thinking of young children beautifully -- very much like Mark Twain captured a certain sort of youth in Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Anyone who doesn't like this sort of thing can always clip the "Gallant" pages out of Highlights for their kids. He's a bag-load of correct and clean fun. Yawn.

Rock on, SPOGGers.  Also, would you be willing to set up an RSS feed?  Thanks.

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*No, I'm not kidding.

Comments

[Debra Hamel]

Hi, Leila. They've got an RSS feed: http://grammatically.blogspot.com/atom.xml (I just subscribed.) Thanks for mentioning the site, which I'd not heard of before.

[Leila]

I knew I must've just missed it -- thanks!