Junie B. Jones Loves Handsome Warren

by Barbara Park

  Who’s there?” he said.

  “Ash,” I said.

  “Ash who?” said Handsome Warren.

  “HA! I DID IT AGAIN, WARREN! I MADE YOU SNEEZE AGAIN! YOU SAID ASHOO! AND SO THAT WAS ANOTHER GOOD ONE, RIGHT?”

  Handsome Warren raised up his head. His face didn’t look as mad.

  “Knock knock,” I said.

  “Who’s there?” said Handsome Warren.

  “Kook.”

  “Kook who?” he said.

  I made a fist at that guy.

  “Hey! Who are you calling cuckoo, mister?” I said.

  Just then, Handsome Warren did a teeny smile.

  He waited for a second. Then he smiled some more.

  “Knock knock,” he said.

  “Who’s there?”

  “Icy,” said Handsome Warren.

  “Icy who?”

  “Icy London, Icy France, Icy Lucille’s underpants,” he said.

  I clapped and clapped.

  “Me too, Warren! I saw those things, too! ’Cause that crazy kook is always twirling around in those bouncy dresses, that’s why!”

  All of a sudden, my whole face lighted up.

  “Knock knock!”

  “Who’s there?” said Handsome Warren.

  “Irish.”

  “Irish who?”

  “IRISH I WAS AN OSCAR MAYER WIENER!” I sang real loud.

  Then me and Handsome Warren started laughing real hard! And we holded our sides! And we rolled all around on the ground!

  “YOU ARE A NUTBALL!” said Handsome Warren.

  “YOU ARE A NUTBALL, TOO!” I said back.

  “WE ARE BOTH NUTBALLS!” he said.

  And so after that, me and Nutball Warren rolled and laughed and rolled and laughed. All around the grass. Till the bell rang!

  ’Cause that’s what nutballs do, of course!

  Plus also me and him were brand-new friends, I think!

  And that is called happily ever after!

  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

  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

  Copyright © 1996 by Barbara Park

  Illustrations copyright © 1996 by Denise Brunkus

  All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Random House

  Children’s Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

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  JUNIE B. JONES is a registered trademark of Barbara Park, used under license.

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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Park, Barbara.

  Junie B. Jones loves handsome Warren / by Barbara Park ;

  illustrated by Denise Brunkus.

  p. cm. “A stepping stone book.”

  SUMMARY: Unable to compete with her friends’ fancy clothes and running ability, irrepressible six-year-old Junie B. finds her own way to make the new boy at school like her.

  eISBN: 978-0-307-75478-3

  [1. Friendship—Fiction. 2. Kindergarten—Fiction. 3. Schools—Fiction.]

  I. Brunkus, Denise, ill. II. Title.

  PZ7.P2197Jv 1996 [Fic]—dc20 96-1440

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