A review by misha7094
Quinny & Hopper by Adriana Brad Schanen

4.0

This is written from an elementary school teacher/librarian perspective: This is a very cute book. The chapters alternate Quinny and Hopper as narrators with a very good flow and transition between each. Quinny reminds me of Pennypacker's Clementine in several ways but Quinny's character is portrayed more developmentally accurate for her given age than Clementine's character, something that always bugged me about the latter. This book would be a good read-aloud for 1st-3rd grades as a tool for discussing types of bullying, recognizing bullying and dealing with bullying. Other topics are friendship, sibling relationships, moving / new students, and in writing: developing voice. Two aspects that didn't sit well with me are Hopper's mom's apparent obliviousness to how Hopper's brothers practically terrorize him, and then the little surprise at the end. That surprise seems unrealistic due to the given time frame and it's unnecessary. Save for those two items, I'd have given the book 5 stars. I love Quinny and Hopper and would gladly purchase more books for my school library were they to be published.