I’ve read, pondered, discussed, and pondered some more these projects, and am coming back with a response that I know will be somewhat unexpected.Īfter addressing the other projects, Wes focused on A High Five for Glenn Burke:Īs a picture book, I don’t see it. In January of 2018, Erin shared the manuscript (along with a number of other project proposals) with Wes. My “Frindl-ing” post would be part of it.īut when I learned that Andrew Clements passed away over the Thanksgiving holiday, I felt I needed to write my post now. Then this past August, when I sat down with the publicity and marketing teams at Macmillan, we talked about the launch of A High Five for Glenn Burke. One of those posts would be called “Frindl-ing.” I mentioned that I intended to write a series of blog posts around the time of publication. We discussed the manuscript and some of the plans for the book. Later that Spring, I met with Wes in the old FSG offices in the Flatiron Building. So when Wes and FSG decide to buy A HIGH FIVE FOR GLENN BURKE, I’m going to write a blog post called, “Frindling.” The subject line of the email was “So When.” The opening sentence of the email read: The new word is spreading across the country, and there's nothing Nick can do to stop it.Back in early 2018, when Wes Adams (my editor at Farrar, Straus, and Giroux), was about to acquire my middle grade novel, A High Five for Glenn Burke, I sent an email to my agent, Erin Murphy. His teacher wants Nick to put an end to all this nonsense, but the funny thing is frindle doesn't belong to Nick anymore. Soon the school is in an uproar, and Nick has become a local hero. Then other people in town start saying frindle. Who says a pen has to be called a pen? Why not call it a frindle? Things begin innocently enough as Nick gets his friends to use the new word. When Nick learns some interesting information about how words are created, suddenly he's got the inspiration for his best plan ever.the frindle. Is Nick Allen a troublemaker? He really just likes to liven things up at school - and he's always had plenty of great ideas.

Paperback | 112 pages | Publication Date: February 1, 1998įrom bestselling and award-winning author Andrew Clements, a quirky, imaginative tale about creative thought and the power of words that will have readers inventing their own words.

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