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My daughter (7) has recently started reading the Junie B. Jones books. She was introduced to them at school, the library has the entire collection and her teacher had several copies in her classroom. However, my daughter is able to pick out the bad grammar and inappropriate words (we don't use the words stupid or dumb at home) and knows that even though the characters in the book speak that way, that there is a correct way of saying it (or other words we can use instead of stupid/dumb etc). One day we were reading the book together and she could tell I was getting annoyed with the errors and her response was "Mama, she is in kindergarten. Kindergarten kids talk like that sometimes."
Because she is able to understand that the reason Junie uses incorrect grammar is her age and because she knows the correct way to say things, I don't mind if she reads the books.
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