Poppy's Perfect Prank

Description:

Stella and Dahlia are getting tired of Poppy's mischief, and order her to quit pranking for a whole week. Needless to say, Poppy thinks that is TOTES UNFAIR! Her problems don't stop there — Poppy then "accidentally misplaces" Luca while birdsitting him. To save Luca, Poppy will have to pull the best prank every known to birdkind!

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Personal Review:

I really did not expect much from a children's book about the main character's "Perfect Prank", so I was relatively surprised with how much I liked this book. I mean, it's not exactly top-tier, but it's ain't at the bottom of the list either.
Unfortunately, that means it's 'Mid', so I don't have much to say about it.

I guess there is an attempt at a "Be Yourself" message, but it's not executed that well. Poppy being herself is what causes a decent chunk of her problems in the first place, and she's not being outrageously Not Herself when she's trying out new hobbies and tidying up her home. Plus she never actually strays that far from her usual self, so it kinda falls flat when everyone's like "Oh, we missed the old Poppy SO MUCH!!" at the end.

And now, a few noteworthy screenshots:

A screenshot of page 41 of Angry Birds Stella Diaries: Poppy's Perfect Prank
'Meditating is NOT AT ALL as calming as Willow claims. For a start all that OMMING is buzzy and makes my beak tingle, which is TOTES distracting. Plus emptying your mind is easier said than done. I mean, I tried SUPER-hard to concentrate on NOTHING. But then almost immediately I though, 'What does NOTING look like? Is it see-through like air? Or is it dark like a black hole?' And then stuff kept wandering into the nothing, like Dahlia getting all scientific and doing some crazy experiment on NOTHING, and the pigs trying to...'

A screenshot of page 42 of Angry Birds Stella Diaries: Poppy's Perfect Prank
'...dig a hole in NOTHING, and Willow getting her feathers in a twist because they were destroying NOTHING.
And then before I knew it there was a full-scale FLAP going on in my head and all over NOTHING. Seriously, meditation makes rocket science look EASY-PEASY if you ask me. Not that I've tried it, because Dahlia won't let me. But it can't be ANY harder, that's for double sure.
Unless... maybe the reason I'm getting it wrong is because I'm still too, well, Poppyish. Maybe all that loud drumming means I can't hear the universe BREATHE or whatever it is I'm supposed to be doing. Maybe I'm not ready for this much chilling yet. I mean, you don't learn to forward flip by jumping off the edge of a CLIFF.
Okay, well, maybe I did try that. But only the once.
No, what I need is proper lessons first. I need to be taught to TAKE IT EASY, to TUNE IN to the enviroment, to TREAT my body like a TEMPLE. And other things begginning with a T. And the...'

Poppy's got ADHD or something.

Additionally, you've probably seen this screenshot before, but there's these two pages that suggests Poppy isn't attracted to boys:

A screenshot of page 33 of Angry Birds Stella Diaries: Poppy's Perfect Prank
'Girl friends are just sooo much more fun. Or at least they are when you haven't pranked them into a MEGA sulk.
I tell you something though, diary. The day you catch me kissing a boy is the day the world really will END. [...]'

Poppy in front of the lesbian pride flag.

(I mean, this is just the setup for the punchline that is Poppy kissing Handsome Pig as part of her Gale disguise near the end, but it's something, right?)

(Maybe that's why Angry Birds Stella got canned so early, Handsome Pig doomed them all!)