Chapter Book #11

Jingle Bells, Batman Smells! (P.S. So Does May.)

1.      Title- Jingle Bells, Batman Smells! (P.S. So Does May.)

2.      Author- Barbara Park

3.      Illustrator- Denise Brunkus

4.      Genre- Children’s Chapter Book

5.      Subgenre-Realistic Fiction

6.      Theme- Christmas, Challenges, Families and Social Structures, Friends and School Life

7.      Primary and secondary characters-

8.      Award(s) date of publication- 2005

9.      Publishing company- Scholastic  Inc.

10.  Brief summary and how you would use the book, with students.

 It's the holidays and it’s the Christmas season for Junie B. and her friends and classmates. Her class has been chosen to wear jingle-bell hats and perform carols. Only here's the thing May's spying and peeping and tattle-taling threatens to ruin it all for Junie B. Jones, or as May calls her, just Junie Jones. Things get even "worser" for Junie B. when she's chosen to be May's Secret Santa. Junie B. has a plan for a gift that will really spite May, but as she sees May's joy at the holiday season, she begins to wonder about her plan.This is a great book that shows the true spirit of the season. This is another great book! I would use this book with my children during the Christmas season. I would hope I would teach a lesson to my students of how important it is to be nice all the time and even during the Christmas season. I would probably have a secret Santa for the kids and have them write each other letters of how important each other are to them.