A friend recently gave me a book Diary of a Wimpy Kid, a novel in cartoons, by Jeff Kinney. A used to LOVE the Calvin and Hobbes comic strip, and Kinney’s comedic style reminds me of Watterson’s humor somehow. The story follows Greg Heffley who finds himself “thrust into middle school, where undersized weaklings share the hallways with kids who are taller, meaner, and already shaving.”
Here’s how the book kicks off:
Here’s a good example of the humor as Greg actually does use his diary quite often:
Once I got past wondering whether I was given this book because someone thought I’d relate with the Wimpy Kid and decided to assume the thinking was just that the book was incredibly funny, I read it…cover to cover.
While Greg (the wimpy kid) clearly lacks heroic traits and suffers from a pretty flawed sense of loyalty towards his best friend Rowley, his complete lack of pretense is likable. Greg pretty much does whatever he feels like, and his lack of social savvy keeps him low on the popularity pole. Ahhh…those middle school years– so ripe with humiliation, confusion, social mishaps, and dumb ideas gone wrong. Thanks Jeff Kinney for reminding us how great it is to be on this side of puberty.
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My students love this book. Check Roderick Rules, book 2 in the series for more fun.
Check out the webcomic it spawned from:
http://www.funbrain.com/journal/Journal.html?ThisJournalDay=1&ThisPage=1
I did and it was fun. I cried when it ended though.
THE BEST BOOK EVER SO FREAKING HILLARIOUS!!!!!!!!♥♥♥Bree♥♥♥
I think so too!
I love diary of a wimpy kid books i have the whole series. I hated to read but when i got the first book i loved it and then i read all of them. Please make more books because those are the onlty books i read. They ROCK!
Well, then, total Wimpy fan now!
the best book ever
dang diary of a wimpykid is awsome i can not what until the 5th one comes out o and they are terning diary of a wimpy kid in to a movie and they ar looking for some won to play
greg and you have to be 10-13 of age goto diary of age w
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this is the best book ever and it is really funny i just want to read it all over again and again and again and again it is just the bets book ever and i will not let anyone touch it or look at it
I love diary of a wimpy kid. Thanks for this post
omgggg i love these books i have read them all and im getting the actionfriures im so adicted to them i will cry when yall make the last one plz make more plzplzplzplzplzplzplzplzplzplzplz