About the Author

Jeff Kinney is a #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series and the Awesome Friendly Kid series. He is a six-time Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Award winner for Favorite Book and has been named one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World. He spent his childhood in the Washington, D.C., area and moved to New England, where he and his wife own a bookstore named An Unlikely Story.

Reviews

The world has gone crazy for Jeff Kinney's Diary of a Wimpy Kid series
*Sun*

Kinney is right up there with J K Rowling as one of the bestselling children's authors on the planet
*Independent*

Hilarious!
*Sunday Telegraph*

The most hotly anticipated children's book of the year is here - Diary of a Wimpy Kid
*The Big Issue*

Kinney's junior-high diarist returns to chronicle another year's worth of comic moments in this riotous sequel. Once again, school-related drama constitutes a good portion of Greg's subject matter, from an ongoing correspondence with a pen pal ("I'm pretty sure 'aquaintance' doesn't have a 'c' in it. You really need to work on your English," Greg replies to the French student?s polite introduction) to mastering book reports by writing "exactly what the teacher wants to hear" ("There were a bunch of hard words in this book, but I looked them up in the dictionary so now I know what they mean"). As in the previous book, cartoons form part of the narrative, corroborating (or disproving) Greg?s statements. He claims that kids with last names at the start of the alphabet are smartest, and a side-by-side comparison of prim uber-nerd Alex Aruda and gap-toothed Christopher Ziegel drives the point home. Additionally, Kinney fleshes out the often testy relationships between Greg and his slacker older sibling, Rodrick, and his little brother, Manny (when Greg gets mad at Manny for shoving a cookie in his video game system, the toddler protests, "I'm ownwy thwee!" and offers a ball of tinfoil with toothpicks shoved through to apologize). The hilarious interplay between text and cartoons and the keen familial observations that set Diary of a Wimpy Kid apart are just as evident in this outing, and are just as likely to keep readers in stitches. Ages 8-up. (Feb.) Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information.

The world has gone crazy for Jeff Kinney's Diary of a Wimpy Kid series * Sun *
Kinney is right up there with J K Rowling as one of the bestselling children's authors on the planet * Independent *
Hilarious! * Sunday Telegraph *
The most hotly anticipated children's book of the year is here - Diary of a Wimpy Kid * The Big Issue *