(The book takes place in the San Francisco Bay Area.) Most of the other kids in the book, including Mitch and Amy Huff, have less illustrious parents. A key part of Alan’s identity is that is father is a world-famous professor at the University. He destroys the skateboard which Mitch built for himself, and steals cupcakes meant for Amy’s Girl Scout troop.
The twins also need to support one another through attacks by a classic bully. The intervening years between the novel’s first appearance and now have done little to date these problems. Mitch struggles with reading, while Amy finds learning arithmetic to be a torment. Mitch bothers Amy and her friends, they playfully belittle each other in ways that can cross the line from funny to hurtful, and their strengths and weaknesses are complementary.
Mitch and Amy Huff fight over many typical sources of conflict. However, the book radiates empathy for the experience of having one sibling of the same age. How much of that experience is reflected in her novel Mitch and Amy, about twins who are very different in spite of the strong bond they share, is hard to know. Beverly Cleary (1916-2021), was the mother of boy and girl twins.
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