Junie B. Jones Has a Monster Under Her Bed

by Barbara Park

  I clapped and clapped.

  “I know they are oh my! That is why I put them under my bed! Get it, Mother? Get it? Now my scary face will be down there all the time! And so that monster already got scared away, I bet!”

  All of a sudden, Mother started to laugh.

  Then I started to laugh, too.

  Plus here’s another happy thing. ’Cause this morning there was more drool on my pillow.

  Only I am not that worried.

  ’Cause it was from Raggedy Ruth, I bet.

  Or else maybe it was from Philip Johnny Bob.

  Or maybe it was even from me.

  But that does not mean I’m a baby.

  ’Cause everybody drools on their pillow once in a while!

  My very own mother told me that.

  And she would not even lie to me…

  probably.

  Laugh out loud with Junie B. Jones!

  #1 Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus

  #2 Junie B. Jones and a Little Monkey Business

  #3 Junie B. Jones and Her Big Fat Mouth

  #4 Junie B. Jones and Some Sneaky Peeky Spying

  #5 Junie B. Jones and the Yucky Blucky Fruitcake

  #6 Junie B. Jones and That Meanie Jim’s Birthday

  #7 Junie B. Jones Loves Handsome Warren

  #8 Junie B. Jones Has a Monster Under Her Bed

  #9 Junie B. Jones Is Not a Crook

  #10 Junie B. Jones Is a Party Animal

  #11 Junie B. Jones Is a Beauty Shop Guy

  #12 Junie B. Jones Smells Something Fishy

  #13 Junie B. Jones Is (almost) a Flower Girl

  #14 Junie B. Jones and the Mushy Gushy Valentime

  #15 Junie B. Jones Has a Peep in Her Pocket

  #16 Junie B. Jones Is Captain Field Day

  #17 Junie B. Jones Is a Graduation Girl

  #18 Junie B., First Grader (at last!)

  #19 Junie B., First Grader: Boss of Lunch

  #20 Junie B., First Grader: Toothless Wonder

  #21 Junie B., First Grader: Cheater Pants

  #22 Junie B., First Grader: One-Man Band

  #23 Junie B., First Grader: Shipwrecked

  #24 Junie B., First Grader: BOO…and I MEAN It!

  #25 Junie B., First Grader: Jingle Bells, Batman Smells! (P.S. So Does May.)

  #26 Junie B., First Grader: Aloha-ha-ha!

  #27 Junie B., First Grader: Dumb Bunny

  Top-Secret Personal Beeswax: A Journal by Junie B. (and me!)

  Junie B.’s Essential Survival Guide to School

  Barbara Park says:

  “I’m not sure how old I was when I decided that there might be something creepy hiding under my bed. I didn't know what it was, exactly. But I was sure that if I got too close, some sort of hand would reach out and grab my ankle.

  That’s why I taught myself to leap onto my bed from all corners of my room. First, I would get a running start. Then I would spring off the floor, fly through the air, and land safely in the middle of my mattress.

  Of course, it’s embarrassing to even admit such a ridiculous thing now. I mean it. I can't remember the last time I took a running leap like that.

  No. Honest. I can’t.

  (Okay, fine. It was Saturday night. But if you tell anyone, I’ll deny it completely.)”

  Text copyright © 1997 by Barbara Park

  Illustrations copyright © 1997 by Denise Brunkus

  All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.

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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Park, Barbara. Junie B. Jones has a monster under her bed / by Barbara Park;

  illustrated by Denise Brunkus.

  p. cm.

  SUMMARY: After hearing from a classmate at kindergarten that people have monsters under their beds, Junie B. Jones is afraid to go to sleep at night.

  eISBN: 978-0-307-75472-1

  [1. Monsters—Fiction. 2. Bedtime—Fiction. 3. Fear—Fiction.

  4. Kindergarten—Fiction. 5. Schools—Fiction.]

  I. Brunkus, Denise, ill. II. Title.

  PZ7.P2197Jtw 1997 [Fic]-Klc20 96-42561

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