![]() ![]() Update: After his appearance on “CBS This Morning,” Kinney began a global tour in North America, Europe and Asia to promote the release of his book. ![]() “It’s really an exciting world,” Kinney said. Our lives are really enriched and the greater community is also very enriched.”Īnd coming up: a fourth “Diary of Wimpy Kid” movie, based on “The Long Haul,” and next year an animated television series. “Each week we have nationally- or internationally-known authors visiting us, and it’s extremely edifying. Kinney and his wife have opened their own bookstore in Plainville, Mass., An Unlikely Story, “because we wanted something really nice in the middle of our community,” he said. Most kids have parents and siblings and pets and homework and teachers. “I think it’s that childhood is a universal condition, really. “What is it about this book that’s about, really, an American kid?” he said. Readers around the world have responded to the books, which are currently available in more than 40 languages (including Latin!). ![]() “We went to Brazil, China, Australia, Latvia, Romania, and this year we’re going to India, Korea, Israel.” He is currently on his first global book tour, which began last year. His diary, complete with hilarious cartoons, records a year in his life and follows his relationships with his nerdy best friend Rowley, annoying brothers Roderick and Manny and long-suffering parents. The fact that I’m here with you today, I don’t think that would have happened if I had had newspaper comics printed.” Greg Heffley is a normal American kid, albeit one with a habit of getting into (and out of) trouble. Kinney admitted that he was originally “frustrated” that he didn’t become the newspaper cartoonist he’d originally dreamed of, “but I think this is a better dream. A Romance of the Little Forest (2022) A Storm of Wind and Cloud (2022) A Superior Day (2022) A Superior Day 24. My editor said, ‘You know what? We think you’ve written a children’s series.’” A Puppetry (2022) A Robot in the Orange Orchard (2022) A Romance of the Little Forest. “And then when I wrote ‘Diary of a Wimpy Kid,’ I thought I was writing for my father, somebody who wanted to look back on his childhood. “When I was a kid, I read comic books and comic strips that my father put in front of me, so I always thought that I would be a cartoonist,” he said. When the skies open up and the water starts. But things take an unexpected turn, and they find themselves stranded at an RV park that’s not exactly a summertime paradise. He told co-anchor Norah O’Donnell that he always saw his future in cartooning, but his first “Wimpy Kid” book was originally aimed at an adult audience. In The Deep End, book 15 of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, Greg Heffley and his family hit the road for a cross-country camping trip, ready for the adventure of a lifetime. I was just a normal kid.’ So Greg is the anti-Harry Potter in some ways.” Author Jeff Kinney. I was like, ‘I wasn’t any of those things. He is brave, he is famous, he’s magical, he is powerful. Kinney said that when he was working on his first book of the series, “I was reading ‘Harry Potter,’ and I realized that Harry Potter is a underdog, but he’s really not in some ways. ![]()
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