Editing Frindle (section)

{{Short description|1996 novel by Andrew Clements}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2013}}
{{Infobox book|<!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Novels or Wikipedia:WikiProject_Books  -->
| name = Frindle
| image = Frindle cover.gif
| caption = Front cover: Nicholas "Nick" Allen holding a "frindle", or pen
| author = [[Andrew Clements]]
| illustrator = [[Brian Selznick]]
| cover_artist = Selznick
| country = United States
| genre = Realistic fiction
| publisher = Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
| pub_date = December 19, 1996
| media_type = Print (hardcover, paperback)
| pages = 105 pages
| isbn = 0-689-80669-8
| oclc = 38482602
| congress = PZ7.C59118 Fr 1996<ref>[http://lccn.loc.gov/95026671 "Frindle"] (first edition). Library of Congress Online Catalog (lccn.loc.gov). Retrieved 2015-09-13.</ref>
| preceded_by = 
| followed_by =  
}}
'''''Frindle''''' is a middle-grade American [[Children's literature|children's novel]] written by [[Andrew Clements]], illustrated by [[Brian Selznick]], and published by [[Aladdin Paperbacks]] in 1996. It was the winner of the 2016 [[Phoenix Award]], which is granted by the [[Children's Literature Association]] annually to recognize one English-language children's book published twenty years earlier that did not win a major literary award at the time of publication.<ref name=phoenix/>

''Frindle'' was Clements's [[first novel]]; all of his previous works had been picture books. According to Clements, the book originated from the thought, "What would happen if a kid started using a new word, and other kids really liked it, but his teacher didn't?"<ref>{{cite web | title = EPA's Top 100 Authors: Andrew Clements | publisher = Educational Paperback Association | url = http://www.edupaperback.org/showauth.cfm?authid=48 | access-date = 2009-04-19 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071118131120/http://www.edupaperback.org/showauth.cfm?authid=48 | archive-date = November 18, 2007 | url-status = dead }}</ref>