Mummy What If
Carla Dijs(Author)
Simon & Schuster Children's (Publisher)
Published on 6. June 2002
Book
Hardback
96 pages
978-0-689-83656-5 (ISBN)
Description
Nicholas Allen has plenty of ideas. Who can forget the time he turned the classroom into a tropical island, or the times he has fooled the teacher by chirping like a blackbird? But now it looks like his days as a troublemaker are over. Now Nick is in Mrs Granger's class - she who has X-ray vision - and everyone knows that nobody gets away with anything in her classroom. To make matters worse, Mrs Granger is also fanatical about the dictionary - which Nick thinks is so boring. But then inspiration strikes and Nicholas invents his greatest plan yet: to create a new word. From now on, a pen is no longer a pen - it's a frindle. It doesn't take long to catch on and soon the excitement has spread well beyond the school and town...but frindle doesn't belong to Nick anymore, it has a life of it's own, and all Nick can do now, is sit back and watch what happens.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Simon & Schuster
Target group
Children/juvenile
Illustrations
colour and b&w illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 197 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-689-83656-5 (9780689836565)
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Persons
Andrew Clements has written a number of books for children, including three novels about school life. He taught in public schools near Chicago for seven years before moving east to begin a career in publishing. The idea for Frindle grew out of a talk that he gave to second graders. He says that "Frindle is about discovering the true nature of words, language, thought, community and learning, and about the life that surges through the corridors and classrooms every day." Andrew Clements now writes full-time and lives in central Massachusetts with his wife and their four children.