I checked on Amazon to see what people were saying about Junie B. ... I'm glad you ignored the folks who were on about how bad she is for kids. Not every book needs to be a lesson ... . They're pretty funny. My favorite is probably the one where she wants a pet to bring in for the school pet parade, and ends up with a fishstick on the end of a string ... and God bless her teacher, who manages to deal with the situation quite handily!
Luckily mine was not too into any particular style of clothes at that age, and by the time she was 6 or 7, she'd decided that her favorite color was green! (When we're traveling with my friend Kat and her family, we still tend to color-code everything for the 3 girls: Liz is pink or purple, Care is green, and Becca is yellow. Oddly enough, Liz is probably the least girly of the three!) Later on, I'm afraid I invoked classism - essentially, only stupid people wear those kinds of clothes.
You can always try getting some of the less slutty clothing catalogs - Lands End, LL Bean, Hanna Andersson (pricey!) - and letting her pick out some things from them. They simply don't have those kinds of fashions, and the idea of being able to pick things in the favorite color - even if it's pink! - often makes up for any lack of trendiness.
(And if you start visiting this neck of the woods, we may be able to rustle up some hand-me-downs if that would help the budgetary aspect of all this ... most of the Young Lady's stuff has gone on to her cousin Ilana - 6 yrs old - or game-playing-offspring Katy - also 6, but much larger for her age - but we could probably get some of it back. Katy's little sister Laura won't be big enough for those things for a while.)
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I checked on Amazon to see what people were saying about Junie B. ... I'm glad you ignored the folks who were on about how bad she is for kids. Not every book needs to be a lesson ... . They're pretty funny. My favorite is probably the one where she wants a pet to bring in for the school pet parade, and ends up with a fishstick on the end of a string ... and God bless her teacher, who manages to deal with the situation quite handily!
Luckily mine was not too into any particular style of clothes at that age, and by the time she was 6 or 7, she'd decided that her favorite color was green! (When we're traveling with my friend Kat and her family, we still tend to color-code everything for the 3 girls: Liz is pink or purple, Care is green, and Becca is yellow. Oddly enough, Liz is probably the least girly of the three!) Later on, I'm afraid I invoked classism - essentially, only stupid people wear those kinds of clothes.
You can always try getting some of the less slutty clothing catalogs - Lands End, LL Bean, Hanna Andersson (pricey!) - and letting her pick out some things from them. They simply don't have those kinds of fashions, and the idea of being able to pick things in the favorite color - even if it's pink! - often makes up for any lack of trendiness.
(And if you start visiting this neck of the woods, we may be able to rustle up some hand-me-downs if that would help the budgetary aspect of all this ... most of the Young Lady's stuff has gone on to her cousin Ilana - 6 yrs old - or game-playing-offspring Katy - also 6, but much larger for her age - but we could probably get some of it back. Katy's little sister Laura won't be big enough for those things for a while.)