WHAT WAS FRINDLE? This kid renamed the PEN and we were all jealous

[@AthenaPOfficial]

ATHENA P SILLY SONGS FOR SILLY GUYS VOL 3 OUT NOW open.spotify.com/album/3YGZZ0HK1TiGTXHLNKPlzk?si=-geXyUtHSSuTzEQioPJXPQ

[@kgbofficer5629]

Top 5 greatest albums of all time 5. Sgt Pepper's lonely hearts club band 4. Tommy 3. Silly songs for silly guys 3 2. Silly songs for silly guys 2 1. Silly songs for silly guys

[@TwistedAxes]

I respect my fellow ginger for making them jealous

[@TwistedAxes]

If you think the fact that he is making a cult around pens my friend made one about chihuahua but he spelt it Chiwawa to be cool

[@jarodgolgori3137]

no one asked, piggy

[@Lolbitdrangonmaster]

Hey, athena, when were you born?

[@limelantern5637]

My favorite genre of children's fiction is "it would be hard, but you probably could." where everything the kids do would require a lot of effort, organization and creativity, but it's not impossible for a kid to pull off. It makes the world feel like a more interesting place for a kid

[@queenbee3561]

Yeah, I like that.

[@shannonceleste5557]

Yes!! "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli (sp?) was a favorite of mine as a kid for that exact reason Plus the book series between 2 BFFs who were pen pals, with one who called herself Tara*Starr. I was a lonely child desperate to be DiFfErENt ok 😭

[@Irebami]

ivy and bean like why was ivy allowed to draw with chalk her floor plan on her room FLOOR

[@gray5485]

@@IrebamiTHIS!!!!

[@Awesomeferret10]

I think it’s actually fairly accurate everyone would be so invested in this whole frindle scheme because that’s just how kids are. Like they get that rush from grouping up and “undermining” teachers. There was something similar when I was in fifth grade where every kid would call fourth graders slugs and sixth graders snails and the entire grade did it with no teachers able to stop them. So at least in my experience kids would absolutely pull that shit.

[@kariduanimations]

Same here. When I was in early primary school there was a specific tree just outside the playground and several other kids and I constructed a “big city” at the base of the tree that we maintained and worked on for about four years in a row. There was a hole we dug for “mining” (I don’t remember the details of that though), we would collect rocks and set them up, and we’d populate the city with various slugs and larvae each in its own little leaf hut thing. Even today, though there’s no big city there anymore, that hole was deep enough that there’s still a good dent in the ground where it was.

[@chattycatty3336]

Ours was pretty pg but in elementary there for awhile during indoor recess, me and 2 other friends would sell Lisa frank adoptions (one friend would pick the animal and name it, I'd draw it, and my other friend would make the adoption poster.) People could chose from different drawings and rename them if they wanted and pay .25 cents to "adopt" it. On the other side of the class a group of boys sold orgami ninja stars for a .50-$1 It was great 😂

[@misspinkpunkykat]

@@chattycatty3336 So like those "adoptable" thingies on Deviant Art and in Furry communities?

[@chattycatty3336]

@@misspinkpunkykat omg yes! 😭 😂 I never thought about it like that haha

[@Topdoggie7]

​@@misspinkpunkykatYou mean selling a design IP. Which I'm sure some of those are now characters online. It's pretty easy to understand adoptables.

[@avazzle]

i haven’t read this book since the 5th grade, this is about to unlock some long forgotten memories

[@kioturtle]

Me neither

[@theamazingkc]

SAME

[@Harudodo]

It was fourth grade for me. I remember this book actually got me into the author’s other works for a hot minute haha

[@Miracle12348]

Same

[@username5155]

I haven’t read a book since the 5th grade

[@TSDTalks22]

I tried to start my own frindle campaign because of this book. I also tried to write a novel and pass off as an adult because of Andrew Clements other book The School Story. Man basically made tutorials for how elementary and middle school students could fuck with their parents and teachers in creative ways.

[@msjkramey]

The School Story! I forgot about that! I used to write little books as a kid and even self-published one. It got like 5 sales outside of my family but I was so excited lol

[@Michaela_ZC]

Don’t forget the one where the kid stayed at school overnight or the twins that swapped lives

[@GlitteringChesh]

I’ve never read frindle but I knew the cover looked familiar! The school story was one of my favourite books as a kid

[@celebrityguest.9530]

remember the landry news? i definitely tried to do that one, if the other kids actually liked me it probably would've caught on lol

[@KenikoB]

Oh man I have thought about that book so many times but never remembered to look it up lmao

[@AvaA-tl7tb]

After we read this book in the “advanced” class my teacher gave everyone in my class a pen with the word frindle on the side. As the stuck up kid I was and most my friends we would call the pen a frindle so the other class wouldn't understand. This is something I wake up in a cold sweat about now.

[@justaduck3615]

I live in shame of the little snot nosed teachers pet I was as a kid, so we can live in horrors together.

[@demon_lady122]

Same thing happened with me 💀

[@flower_of_zaun]

I DID THE SAME THING

[@AvaA-tl7tb]

@@flower_of_zaun We are weirdos together 💛

[@InanimateRonpaYin-Yang]

SAMEWEEEE

[@eldritch_izzy]

I loved the part where Nick said “It’s Frindle time!” and Frindled all over the place

[@a-s-greig]

You understood the assignment. 10/10

[@pixelzebra8440]

That sounds so wrong 😭

[@AspynLylly]

​@@pixelzebra8440😭 I was just thinking that

[@MK-dr7dx]

@@AspynLylly Hey, at least he didn't gwagala all over the place.

[@phantomboba]

The closest thing to frindle that ever happened to me was in second grade. This annoying kid in my class and his friends randomly decided one day that they’d refer to elephants as “eleshmaphants” for the rest of the school year… and they DID. These kids remembered to say eleshmaphant every opportunity they got. It was just that friend group though.

[@kayakat1869]

That's kinda hilarious.

[@solarboyaaron4652]

Ok but that’s really cute and fun tho Eleshmaphant is fun to say Love when kids do this, kids will make anything so funny

[@phantomboba]

@@solarboyaaron4652 it was kind of funny but the kid was very annoying, and his parents were rude to teachers

[@pixelzebra8440]

Lol I love how you got everyone to mention elephants THAT MUCH

[@phantomboba]

@@pixelzebra8440 it wasn’t just when we were talking about elephants. They would randomly point to this one poster of animals that had an elephant in it and say eleshmaphant

[@kay_beanz666]

9:58 My 6th grade science teacher had a massive problem with "ain't" to the point she would punish students for saying it, in a southern state where everyone even teachers said it. Don't get that woman's motive to this day and yet you reminded me of it. Ain't that funny?

[@MagicRose99]

I had a similar story, except it was with the movie Meet the Robinsons, everyone knows the saying of the movie "Keep moving forward." Right? So after a school trip to see it in the theaters when it first came out, a teacher of mine took that saying to heart. And would use it as an excuse to not help us with questions/work we had problems understanding. Any calls for help was met with "Keep moving forward." Even now, as a grown adult, I side eye that movie.

[@lindenbree9188]

It's similar to when teachers/adults used to get upset at people for saying "like" too much. As in "He was like, so cool." They don't want students forming informal speech habits, because they sound less articulate. Which I understand to an extent, but also, the use of slang is inevitable in a place where kids (or anyone really) spend like 7 hours a day. It's silly to expect them to have perfect spoken grammar all the time

[@laneyking2044]

@lindenbree9188 don't compare 'like' to 'ain't' Like is an actual filler word that ruins your speech

[@lindenbree9188]

@@laneyking2044 "Like" can be a faster way to say you're paraphrasing the words someone used. For example, "I was like 'Are you kidding me?'" is much faster than "I reacted by saying, and I paraphrase, 'Are you kidding me?'" It can serve a genuine function in conveying ideas and is not always a filler word.

[@llamawalrushybrid]

@@lindenbree9188 Exactly this. Like has a meaning!

[@frillydress]

You should review more books, I would love it if you talked about “A Bad Case of Stripes”

[@Tackfox999]

NOT THAT NIGHTMARE FUEL

[@frillydress]

@@Tackfox999 IT IS BUT ATHENA TALKING ABOUT IT WOULD BE SO FUNNY

[@supercjm3306]

That book fucking terrified me as a kid. It's straight up abstract horror for children.

[@memethyst]

i would love to see athena's makeup look for that one

[@frillydress]

@@memethyst yeah that sounds pretty cool!

[@mooniera2810]

I have a suggestion for your next book series review. It's called "Dork Diaries". It's like a female version of "Diary of a Wimpy Kid", but it has a more coherent story and cute illustrations.

[@kenzij]

If you just want to hear someone talk about the series Amanda Toddhunter did a series of videos on the books. If not just ignore this comment.

[@Morpheus_Zombie111]

Dear dumb diary it dairy of a wimpy kids for girls. Jamie is just as fucked up as Greg heffley

[@kitkatbreaker1270]

and a main character who isn't a complete sociopath, at least I couldn't think of

[@august6760]

I remember always wanting to read those books but my mom never let me because she said it looked stupid, still let me read diary of a wimpy kid tho

[@pixelzebra8440]

OMGGGG I loved that book series I read like the first 3.5 books! Lol but most of it that I remember is that there was this popular kid and the main character hated them and I remember the main character wanted to curl up and die the entire book 😭 Also they were an artist or something and drew tattoos for ppl (probably self insert for the writer of the book lol) They also made a boy version at some point by the same writer where they got locked in a locker by the school bully and almost died from ppl breaking into the school and I read that too lol That shit was crazy but loved it 💀

[@ironicappreciation4374]

Unironically I, a 21 year old woman who read this in THIRD GRADE, just nearly teared up at mrs. Granger’s closing monologue

[@squarekirby5437]

I’m pretty sure I teared up the first time I read it lol

[@NotAnyoneRealyImortant]

damn, i read in in 3rd grade too and a I'm 13, crazy:)

[@midoriya-shonen]

This book really did make us all feel full of potential tbh. It's one of those books that stuck with us forever

[@pixelzebra8440]

Ye

[@kaylenkitty]

Alright, you convinced me, I wanna see this as a musical. How do we start crowd funding? Call the Ratatouille people!

[@Iwillconfiscateyourbones]

I’m a sucker for musicals so I’m all in this! I kinda wanna write a song now lmao

[@Iwillconfiscateyourbones]

And yes, CALL THE RATATOUILLE PEOPLE!!!

[@televisionkid7783]

YES IT WOULD BE SO GOOD

[@saylemevelyn]

there *was* a frindle musical, my class saw it as a field trip

[@Rivkaaaaaaa]

IM IN

[@twindrill2852]

I don’t know why, but I felt bad for the kid when I saw him grown up at the very end. No matter what he does in life he’ll always be known as the Frindle kid.

[@pixelzebra8440]

It doesn’t matter HES RICH AS HELL FOR SOME REASON I mean he donated a billion dollars and still had a fortune to spare 💀

[@LavroseRovender]

But that’s why he got rich so why would be complaining

[@burnedoutgraduatestudent4482]

The worst thing is…I wasn’t assigned this book. I picked it out myself and I loved it. I cried when it came time to give it back to the school library.

[@potereregina8330]

Me too 😭

[@goldenwarrior1186]

I think it’s the same for me

[@tearoses9940]

For some reason I remembered the ending being a lot more mean spirited? Instead of her sending him the word in the dictionary, for some reason I had it in my head that he found where this poor woman lived, went to her house and showed her the word in the dictionary, and that’s when she was finally like “Okay, it’s a word.” Idk why I remembered it like that, maybe it was because of Nick’s smug shithead face on the cover?

[@abisnail4888]

This is so funny and terrifying. Just a teacher chilling at home and the door is slammed open to reveal one of your students holding up a dictionary and pointing to the word, claiming he has proved you wrong.

[@WinxAliNelCielo]

@@abisnail4888is that legal?

[@edtheturtle]

We read this and another one of the author's books. It was called "No Talking", and boys v. girls in the grade were trying to talk the least. Our teacher made us do this for at least a week, and self report how many words we said. We refused to do so at recess, and several parents were upset that we thought we weren't allowed to talk at home at all. We all nearly mutinied, and hated her for it.

[@a-s-greig]

I liked that book, but thought it had the weakest premise of Clemens' stuff. And that can't be forced by a teacher anyway. Good job.

[@glossyraspberries9124]

Our fourth grade English teacher made us not only read Frindle, but do the same thing Nick did with a pen and rename a random object. I came up with “Pincaople” for a whiteboard 💀 Still cracks me up to this very day

[@AGoofyJester]

Pincaople sounds like a female main character in a middle grade book

[@purplevorpal]

Ok i did learn cursive in 3rd grade but was never forced to use it after and i never did. I think my school clung on to old traditions tho cause we did the dare program in 5th grade and I found out later that it was shut down in most every other school cause it’s ineffective

[@limelantern5637]

My school did cursive too! very very briefly, like we learned the alphabet for like three days and then were never encouraged to practice it or use it again. I think it might have been a time filler, looking back. I'm kinda thankful it never stuck with me because from what I've seen cursive handwriting seems to have a limited shelf-life of legibility

[@thehootinator7158]

I also learned cursive in school

[@a-s-greig]

Learned cursive in 3rd grade. It stopped mattering after 6th and I only ever use it for my name now.

[@lajeannablair2784]

Hey it was the same for me! Learned in 3rd grade and never used again besides signing

[@AceOfBlackjack]

It actually increased drug use since they talked about the affects, and unironically rarely the stigma, and all about who the cool kids may be doing it, but you shouldn't.

[@kenzij]

This is so very random but related I swear. Andrew Clements, the author of _Frindle,_ had a series called _Benjamin Pratt and the Keepers of the School_ where I'm convinced the overarching conflict could have been solved by the main character implying someone was a child toucher. It could have saved readers at least three books worth of filler. I beg that someone read the books so they can agree with me. Athena could even do it, but I don't have my fingers crossed.

[@kitkatbreaker1270]

I will like and reply, in hopes that Athen see's it

[@kenzij]

@TheCoolerMiraIslam I mean the books themselves are mostly tame. To make a five book long story short, this kid ends up being, essentially, stalked by some weirdo who wants to demolish his school. I'm talking, grown man found out where the kid lives so he could keep an eye on him. Which is why reading the books, admittedly as an older teen, I kept yelling at book "just go to the police! Tell them this man keeps being weird and you are pretty sure he followed you home! They'll think he's up to *something* and keep him far away from your school. Problem solved." Obviously the author likes to encourage kids to solve problems using their minds, but my solution is quicker.

[@Valentineatelier]

@@kenzijoh now I’m interested

[@Backinblackbunny009]

​@@kenzijhow did everyone memory hole Jeffrey Epstein WHO WAS LITERALLY GETTING HANDJOBS FROM 14YOS AND ONLY HAD TO SERVE ONE YEAR IN JAIL PART TIME! HE WAS ALLOWED TO LEAVE THE JAIL DURING THE DAY!

[@averyspecificdragon8780]

Yeah it was long and strange? Like the school was built with the help of the Founding Fathers? Which, also could’ve solved everything. We Americans _worship_ the Founding Fathers, just post on Facebook abt it and within a day the boomers would be screeching nonstop, Tucker Carlson would have a segment abt it, the CEO would wake up to five million death threats and a 50 point stock drop, and the plot would be solved.

[@gabrielle4821]

I swear your like, the best book reviewer. You can turn ANYTHING into hilarity.

[@MattSaysYes]

Athena should do “The Outsiders” book next idk about you guys but we read this book in my 7th grade class and we even watched the movie after. It’s one of the first books I remember reading for class.

[@kitkatbreaker1270]

Oh no, it's still read in 7th grade classrooms nowwdays

[@MattSaysYes]

@@kitkatbreaker1270 it is? It’s such an old book lmao

[@seanf1451]

​@MattSaysYes oh yeah, we read it in 8th grade last fall I believe. I think its going to be a book read in classes for at least 20 years

[@a-s-greig]

Absolutely. It's such a Boomer book, too. Nobody smokes Kools anymore.

[@sollux413]

Our final project was to build a scene from the book, I made the church fire

[@GWAHGWAHGWAHGWAHGWAHGWAHGWAHGW]

“I wonder how Mrs. Granger feels now that the internet is a thing” I think she’s dead, she looks like she’s 80 years old and STILL TEACHING, she 100% died like 3 years after the book takes place due to stress

[@adrianblake8876]

She started teaching in the 60's or earlier (no space shuttles), and still lived 10 years after the events (since the book was published in '96, there was probably FB and YT at THAT time...)

[@Pandazillaaa]

​@@adrianblake8876youtube and Facebook weren't invented until the 2000s.

[@Dr.PicklePh.D.]

I have never heard of or read this book, but the second you opened it and I saw the first illustration I went "oh snap, is that Brian Selznick?" because what I DID read was The Invention of Hugo Cabret and the whole Doll People series.

[@Dr.PicklePh.D.]

okay I just finished the video. my 9-year-old self would have adored this, I think

[@normanclatcher]

Thanks for inadvertently/accidentally explaining why/how my sister came to be interested in Hugo. That's always been a puzzle I could never figure out. It's just turn-of-the-century France.

[@roros9422]

In elementary school our entire grade decided we would start making little pets made from puffballs and googly eyes named Bob and Freds. It got so overwhelming for our school that they decided that they would set aside one entire day for us to make and trade these puffball creatures and then we were never allowed to have them on campus again lol

[@gototheend1139]

So you made pet rocks, but the thought that students weren't constantly in a state of malaise, made the school board say they would distracte students from monotonous work. At least they got to spread some joy before being criminalized by bored authoritarians.

[@WinxAliNelCielo]

Lol

[@lemonberryconda]

This is brilliant. I didn't read this until I was a bit older just because it didn't interest me as much as larger ones, but this was such a good story of a cheeky little shit doing what he did best. Loving today's makeup as always AND love the new plushie in the background!

[@felix6694]

i was forced to learn cursive in school but that’s because i went to a catholic prep school in the deep south, so learning cursive is definitely a thing still happening, just only in old ass schools

[@The_sassafrass]

I was taught cursive in second grade, then I switched schools and learned it again in third grade. Maybe I just had weird luck in landing two schools that still taught cursive?

[@wolfstar1253]

Wordgirl is seething right now

[@phantomboba]

The other day my sibling and I were talking about how weird the plot of this book was, we both agreed that in real life the frindle thing would never catch on and everyone would just find the kid annoying.

[@PalisadePeryton]

I mean, have you seen modern slang? Stuff catches on quicker than you know

[@phantomboba]

@@PalisadePeryton I mean, maybe a few kids would jump on the bandwagon but it would never go so far that the kid went on tv.

[@negligible_reality]

@@phantomboba if it took place in modern day he wouldn't go on tv, but would probably go viral on TikTok instead. from there it would get reposted and memed on basically every social media, especially Twitter. all the commentary KZbinrs would talk about it because it's the crazy new TikTok trend which would spread it further. it probably would die out as a popular meme within a few months, but even then people would still reference it every now and then.

[@DanniBananni]

​@@phantombobaYou'd be suprised! In the city I'm from, new words are made all the time

[@pixelzebra8440]

Maybe but at the same time I can see everyone doing this perfectly

[@thallium.81]

I loved the Frindle book as a child. I actually tried to do the bird chirp prank, but of course, it didn't work and the teacher scolded me in front of the class lmao

[@Harudodo]

I genuinely forgot this book existed. Everything is FLOODING back to me I vividly remember doing an assignment before reading the book, where we would have to guess what it was about with just the title and book cover. I was convinced the kid’s name was Frindle until we started reading Who would name their kid frindle

[@normanclatcher]

I might, if the price is right... 👀

[@JamboreeBlackberry]

The “Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing” books were excellent as a kid, I highly recommend them

[@seanf1451]

omg I remember reading that

[@reaxoxome]

when I read this in 5th grade I cried because the turtle died ahha

[@kitimiaouu]

OMGGG PETER

[@1th_to_comment.]

I have one of those. I keep it on my shelf of important items, along with a trophy I got in second grade, my first attempt at making a paper airplane, an old piggy bank made to look like a star wars character, a wooden box with a lock on it, and a wooden shark thing that I named Fin.

[@amandalynn4979]

Fudge was low-key on the same level as the Ice Age baby 😭

[@faenene]

That song at the end was actually really good, I want a Frindle musical now

[@CheeseThePurpleDragon]

I actually own this book and read it once in a while for laughs! My fourth grade teacher read it to us, and I recognized it at a used book fair. Best 50 cents I ever spent.

[@carolinecheney]

Friendle SHOULD be a musical! I’ve got songs from musicals (mostly Heathers and Ride The Cyclone) and I would love this to be one of the musicals that ends up on there!

[@Sylver2019]

I've never even heard of this book but when you got to the part where the teacher made the student stick the gum on an index card and pin it to their shirt, it reminded me of my drama teacher. If you were caught chewing gum in her class she would make you put it on your nose till the end of class.

[@artzyyangel]

i read this book in 5th grade and i loved it so much, i wrote a letter to the author (andrew clements) for an assignment in class, and he responded! i felt so happy to know that he responded and i believe i still have his letter

[@sotragespacefullgacha1430]

What did he say? I’m curious

[@artzyyangel]

@@sotragespacefullgacha1430 he gave me three things: a response to the letter i wrote (which i don't think i have saved anymore because it was online), but it seems i asked him more about his personal life, when he published his first book (1985), his family, how he got into reading and writing etc. he gave me a list of all the books he published up until 2017, which was when i wrote/sent the letter to him and some writing tips! i was so happy to hear that he responded to me-this letter is going to be with me forever

[@artzyyangel]

@@sotragespacefullgacha1430 bruh i thought i responded 💀💀 BUT he thanked me for the letter, apologized for taking a long time to respond (tbh i wasn't even expecting a response), and he gave me some writing tips along with some other books that he wrote that i'd probably enjoy

[@sotragespacefullgacha1430]

@@artzyyangelawww that’s so cool

[@genrecritical]

im so obsessed with Andrew Clemens career, we should do a bookclub in like a discord or sth

[@Flyinpenguin117]

I remember reading this in like 2nd grade, and some kids tried to get 'frindle' to catch on in real life. It didn't. Also Flat Stanley was the first chapter book I remember reading in school, you should 100% do a deep dive lore analysis of the series.

[@supercjm3306]

My favorite thing in the Flat Stanley series is that there's a book where Stanley turns invisible. Why does he turn invisible? Because he ate fruit during a thunderstorm. I'm not kidding, that's the actual reason.

[@Callme_kit]

Listen I was homeschooled for a long time but this book is still a core memory for me; it was one of the like two audiobook discs we had in our car and we would listen to it anytime our mom wanted us to shut up. (If you’re wondering the other disk was the Martha speaks book I’m not joking)

[@reubendensmore4648]

I never read this book, but I remember it lying around my elementary school. A couple of other book series of similar caliber I would recommend for this series would be Junie B. Jones, and Tales of a 4th Grade Nothing (the Fudge series by Judy Blume).

[@normanclatcher]

Man, I read all of these back in the day... 🙂

[@brendonbecker1735]

I was halfway through the video when I noticed the pen in your pocket and that your cheek had a pocket with pens. I actually admire your creativity 😂

[@omatic_opulis9876]

frindle*

[@elitettelbach4247]

I absolutely loved Frindle growing up (and a lot of other Andrew Clements’ stories- though the publisher or illustrator certainly has a distinct way of making the covers for his books, they’re almost all kid holding object of significance for the book). The ending really does still stick with me. And when I studied linguistics later on in college, I realized that this is a good example of descriptivism in action - the dictionary changing to reflect words that are actually being used. Very cool. Also omfg I love the musical adaptation at the end.

[@deliriousmusicality8840]

NO WAY YOURE TALKING ABOUT THIS you truly are the keeper of nastolgia, the long forgotten and undiscovered by most. Thank you!!

[@hoarsebard]

Pretty much everyone seems to remember reading this at some point and I never did. Once I learned how to read I just kinda skipped straight from The Very Hungry Caterpillar to A Series of Unfortunate Events and Guardians of Ga'Hoole.

[@C0deXANA]

Same! Once I got Junie B Jones down pat I zoomed straight to Warrior Cats and Gahoole. As well as the Shamer Chronicles

[@a-s-greig]

The literacy-to-furry pipeline

[@mapazhie]

Oh i remember reading that book in 4th grade! Our teacher gave us an excerise before reading the book one day to name something in the classeom another thing so i started calling the pillows bonbons and everyone started to call ot that too and it just stuck around, great times!

[@novasan6873]

This reminded me of my time in Elementary school. I loved anything baking and chocolate making. So, I found the expository books and kept checking out the same pastry and chocolate pastry recipe books and showed everyone about it. This became so frequent that the librarian BANNED ME from the expository section for the rest of the time I was in school (I was in 3rd grade, so I had one year until I was able to leave the school and into intermediate, so it was fine) I never cared about Frindle. I saw it, but didn't care. I was more focused on the Rainbow Magic Fairies series books and Dork Diaries books (which had impacted my life a lot and got me into Cupcake Diaries and Chloe by Design)

[@-alovelygaycat-]

Holy crap I forgot about the Rainbow Magic Fairies! I loved those books when I was little! I owned so many of them but I gave them away when I last moved.

[@novasan6873]

​@@-alovelygaycat-Bro, I have the Sweets Fairies and Storybook Fairies series as well as Skylar the Fireworks Fairy and Michelle the Winter Wonderland Fairy books. And, here's the best part: RAINBOW MAGIC HAS AN ANIME STYLE MOVIE!!! It's called "Rainbow Magic: Return to Rainspell Island" and it's SO CUTE

[@Hugelag]

10:36 Nick? A lawyer? WAS THAT AN ACE ATTORNEY REFERENCE?

[@soocoolrobot420]

The first chapter book my school made me read was the queen Judy bee Jones

[@Pukeprincess]

She would whoop Nicks ass

[@SpongeyTheEditor]

I also did this book in school and I actually read it a couple more times on my own. For some reason it stuck with me as a kid but basically forgot about it until recently and now this video exists for me to relive it lol. It's actually still kinda relevant. Don't tell me Granger wouldn't be anal about how "they" totally can't be singular lol.

[@normanclatcher]

I'd argue the reverse. Singular "they" has precedence in English through history because we don't have a better gender-neutral option. "He/she" is clumsy and unwieldy, and "it" isn't a people pronoun.

[@radisk5973]

This was never assigned reading in my class but i remember kids reading it for fun. I never read it cuz i thought the synopsis sounded stupid when i was a kid lol

[@chattycatty3336]

Why the ending make me tear up? 😂😭 😂 "..and i have chosen to play the villian. Every good story needs a bad guy, dont ya think?"

[@CherryCoffee420]

Every so often I remember this and then I’m forced to realize that I still remember most of the plot of the book. As well as how the father kept the whole “frindle fund” (something about a lot of money for college) secret from his son since he still wanted him to mow the lawn or something.

[@remington_rat]

This brought back so many memories. We read this book as a class in third grade and we did an activity where we came up with a new name for an object (lots of kids did pencil and just turned it into frindlecil lol). We also got pens that that the teacher wrote frindle on. Ty for this nostalgia trip

[@tulioco.5711]

I had to read this book for a project and I hardly remember anything, other than for our project we wrote a dictionary (in our own words) with only the words they described in the book. Whenever I see that doc, the only thing i see is "GUYS, we really need to do this or we'll get in trouble!!!" (In like, 20 sized font, written by me because I was too scared to confront them with my spoken words) i think this is the right book, idk, i'm writing this while watching the video

[@kathrynwolfe1287]

17:28 this is maybe your best song yet!!! The production quality, the harmonies, the acting?! 👌 top notch Never read this book in school so thanks for catching me up

[@axolotlfairy2473]

Frindle is just the book equivalent of the hot new word of the day on tumblr catching on

[@steampunk-llama]

Nick would 100% Goncharov his school

[@AkaniOfficial]

Yo I Remember This whole Book in elementary school! Also didn't The kid's Word get into the Dictionary?- not gonna lie I'm pretty jealous

[@gadiesandlentlemen]

yeah, it did, and the teacher was like lowkey impressed?? it was a crazy book bahahah but i'm also pretty jealous.

[@Giran_0]

Never heard of this book and it was going to get a movie? You know who should get a full length movie Rikki-tikki-tavi Or A House for Hermit Crab

[@sarahsims6164]

Would you review the Junie B. Jones series next?

[@ArmundJay]

okay, but actually i could see a musical adaptation of Frindle.. it could certainly work.

[@sketchyskies8531]

The title of this video alone just made an entire dusty treasure chest of memories about this book unlock deep inside the recesses of my brain

[@delphilashay-el5453]

It teaching you the power of language… and the power of mass hysteria. The two genders😂

[@gadiesandlentlemen]

I'm...mass hysteria.

[@LyricTheMusicFox]

Hm I guess I'm still genderqueer, I more identity with the insatiable void of demonic flames

[@stapoldy_propaganda_account]

...i think i'm both...

[@livelollobotomy]

15:48 bro???? Need her entire life story immediately she has so much depth

[@BinglesP]

Urban Dictionary saying “Gwagala” is another word for p/e/nis, when pretty much nobody has used it in that fashion before, is pretty much the entire website in a nutshell

[@theultimateusukfan]

im 26 years old and that cover gave me nostalgia. i've never read it though so im excited to watch this entire video and learn what i missed out on lol

[@Michaela_ZC]

I’m sure I’m not the only one who tried to do our own Frindle thing as a kid. Unfortunately I was not nearly as charismatic or dedicated as Nick and it went nowhere

[@AidenTheVVitch]

I was SO hyped for this video and loved it!!!! Song at the end? BARS Also not me tearing up during Mrs. Granger's letter????? Also also, I was born in 2002, and we read Frindle in 3rd grade if I recall correctly! I was in Texas at the time, and I distinctly remember having to read it and I blazed through it when I was at the grocery store with my mom 💀My gifted kid burn out could never do that now

[@andrewdotmp4]

i really wanted to eat that cover apple as a kid that mf looks delectable

[@ErinEpica]

The Wikipedia snippet at 4:06 is ABSOLUTE BULLSHIT because I'm gen z and STILL write in cursive more often than print lel

[@mynameisreallycool1]

If you want more ideas for hilarious and great children's chapter books that would be fun to analyze for a video, "There's a boy in the girl's bathroom" is a good one that'll probably give you a lot of material to work with. I read it way back when I was in fourth or fifth grade when I got it from the school library years ago. It's a sweet story, and the main protagonist is a fifth grader who is kind of a trouble maker and bully, but he's hilarious, and he has a fantastic redemption arc where he learns to be nicer. There are a couple of parts that didn't really age well, like this part of the book where I think the school counselor kisses the main protagonist on the cheek or something? Yeah, kinda weird, but I just like to pretend that that part of the book doesn't exist. Aside from that, it's a wild story but is still a great read, and it even got me emotional in the end. I remember it being one of the funniest books i had read as a kid.

[@chattycatty3336]

Omg i really hope she reviews "Junie B Jones"

[@Dinoshadow6]

The point of the hole in the pen cap is to stop choking

[@srivatsansanthnam6851]

I remember reading frindle as a kid but I never realized how much of an asshole Nick actually was in the beginning damn T-T

[@urmom6701]

You should review the Chocolate Fever book where this kid literally gets a disease similar to Chicken Pox just from eating too much Chocolate, s**t freaked me out as a kid and made me scared of eating it ever again. We were assigned to read this book in my school in 3rd grade. Also the book of the Bailey High School Kids where these kids straight up harass a minimum wage worker for looking like a ghost (aka dead inside due to her job).

[@-alovelygaycat-]

That’s what those books were called! I loved the Bailey School Kids series when I was in 2nd-3rd grade.

[@jellymcmichaels4240]

She should review Ron Roy's "The A-Z Mysteries"...

[@pixelzebra8440]

I read a book as a kid that was basically that story of the man who wished everything he touched would be made out of gold except with chocolate

[@LiMe251]

​​@@pixelzebra8440the chocolate touch, didn't the kid accidentally turn his mom into chocolate in that

[@alexandrakittycat6108]

​@@LiMe251yes! I remember that book. I was so scared becaude I thought if I ate chocolate I would turn my parents and cat into chocolate.

[@delilahandaria6198]

Found this book on the shelf in my 5th grade classroom and read it... always thought it was a weird story that nobody else would ever hear about. Glad to hear it inspired some people :)

[@JulesK_712]

I read this book in 3rd grade my teacher gave us all “frindles”we had to write a summary for every chapter I forgot all about it until this video and from what I know she still does do that every year because my friend’s sister had her

[@ninjajack6457]

I definitely need more book videos, I’d love if you covered stuff like Middle School Worst Years Of My Life or Origami Yoda

[@EL-jq1sq]

I feel like being on the higher end (not a brag, I barely read back then and the only thing that's marginally changed that is access to audiobooks) of reading groups in elementary school made me miss out on stuff... Also, I'm no American and have never lived there, but I did go to an American curriculum school so I did learn cursive! So at least Gen Z kids in some international schools learned cursive?

[@maddiejoy6619]

I'm 27 and read this book in 3rd grade. I remember being shocked that they were allowed to have pens. We weren't allowed to have any pens except a red one for grading 😅.

[@FoggyBadger]

I read this book as a little kid back in the '90s and I randomly thought of it earlier. I was telling a friend about our devices listening to us and recommending things based on what we say. She didn't believe me and told me to prove it by talking about the most random thing I could think of. This book then took up space in my memory for the first time in 25 years as I described the plot as best I could remember. I said give it a week and it'll be in my recommendations. I was thinking Amazon ads. A few hours later I opened KZbin and this video was in my recommended. My friend is stunned. It's not like I said something random that was popular. It was literally so random, there's no way this was a coincidence. But yeah, this was a very good video!

[@giantpinkcat]

"Why was this the first chapter book that school ever made us read?" My Kindergarten teacher sitting us down to read Charlotte's Web to us like a normal person:

[@CherryHotSauce]

She didn’t “make you read” that she read it to you that’s completely different

[@diamond13dog]

Do you think you can do Captain Underpants lore?

[@beth8191]

athena please do a lore video on “timothy goes to school” bc why did they walk about with their bottoms halves out on show

[@somethingidk3761]

Day 2 of asking for Team Umizoomie lore where is it I will ask nicely once please give it to me

[@TreyMcDonaldAnimator]

Principals were good friends with the parents, yes. I know this because my principal was also BFFs with my mom. LOL the 90s were built different dude.

[@Sir.chaotic-posssum]

I remember I had a problematic class so instead of asking for a pencil we called it a pen a pen a frindle

[@DontEatKandi]

Im 15 and I remember it So the cutoff is somewhere after 2017-2018

[@lovelybean1151]

“ were you hazed!” caught me so offguard, and all I think about is that one episode of 13 reasons why

[@mattybrunolucaszeneresalas9072]

11:07 this isn't the 1st time a school In a book written by this author caught the attention of the diegetic news

[@baconneverdie293]

Could you go over the Upside Down Magic series? I remember it played a HUGE part of my childhood, and there was recently a movie. Little disappointed rock kid didn't get into the movie, but I remember how amazing the books were to younger me. From drittens to missing change, the books were one of the things that got me into reading. I still have one of them that I look back on occasionally.

[@kenzij]

Another human that's read Upside Down Magic. Did you want to physically harm Nori's dad or was that just me?

[@BL00DY_IC3CR3AM1]

THIS BOOK CAME OUT IN 1993?! HOW DID I END UP READING IT!?

[@tiannagraham5210]

yoooo this unlocked several core memories, i was born in 1997 and this was one of those elementary school books i read for fun edit: i forgot how insightful this book was omg it actually sounds like it would be just as enjoyable a read as it was 15 years ago. i would be super interested to know if one of andrew clements’ other books “no talking” would stand the test of time as well

[@soupstar2088]

I remember getting this book in 3rd grade. Me and my bestie could NOT stand who we called ‘Ginger Kid’. We wanted to ACTUALLY murder him he was a conniving little roach who needed to be arrested for existing. But I mean-

[@bobisapanda2655]

What a plot twist a book lore video Also I've never heard of this book before I'm surprised I've never heard

[@mattybrunolucaszeneresalas9072]

16:00 actually in Québec, secondary school students are tasked with inventing words for realities we don't have in French yet. Like "Life-hack", "LiveStreamer", "SpeedRun", *_"BodyShaming"_* and even "StreamSniping". No I shlt you not!

[@whitebread3872]

Omg I remember finding this book in my 4th grade teacher’s mini library and reading it, I don’t remember anything about it and thought it was some kind of fever dream but good to know it’s real

[@mirandatagliamonte9754]

5:00 Tbh, asking a student to do extra homework because they asked a question out of genuine curiosity is HORRID. She clearly could have answered the question, and maybe even enjoyed answering it, but instead she PUNISHED him for it. That kid’s never gonna show a genuine interest in his classes ever again.

[@writeon2593]

Wait, if this WAS made into a musical, I think it would be neat to have every song start with a word and its definition. Someone would come on stage and just say to the camera or audience "Frindle, noun : a modern writing utensil that uses ink", for example, and then the song would start. I can think of some great titles for this story like "protagonist", "antagonist", "dictionary", "prank", and "spotlight" for example.