This school-based (realistic?) fiction starts off slowly.
Read this book, even if you're a Real Adult who doesn't care about "kids' books." Since my review is threatening to be longer than the book, I'll end it there, but: yeah. There could not have been a more perfect ending to this book. Surprising no one but myself, I got a little bit emotional at the end of this book, too. Besides this just being a cute book and an interesting read (even for an adult!), that message is why my hypothetical future children are probably going to read Frindle too. I guess the whole book sort of shows that, but the town having the best school-lunch program in the state spells it out most clearly. (I loved the beach thing!)Īll Nick's ideas - particularly the lunch-boycott one - were also a great, only slightly heavy-handed lesson on how kids can spark change. I have little-to-no patience for explanation (or even buildup-to-action) in most books, and I almost deducted a star since it took quite a while for "frindle" to even be mentioned, but I do think the first several chapters were important to show Nick's character and demonstrate some of his other big ideas. And actually, I laughed at the David Letterman thing because it seemed far-fetched, but then I remembered Ellen, and it didn't seem so ridiculous.
None of it felt unrealistic, because even in such a short book, every consequence of "frindle" was at least mentioned. Yeah, the book is funny, it's silly, but Clements absolutely thought through every single result of this little word-experiment: an entrepreneur trademarks the word, Nick second-guessed his later ideas, Nick gets on the David Letterman show. When my friends read this in elementary school, it was kind of a silly book about some obnoxious kid who decided he didn't like the word "pen." Now, I'm looking at a list of recent Merriam-Webster additions, and thinking about the uproar that comes every time they add something like "dumpster fire" or "FOMO" or "blockchain" - or when someone uses "they" as a singular pronoun.
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