New York, NY (May 27, 2021)—Amulet Books, an imprint of Abrams Children’s Books, revealed today the title and cover of the eagerly anticipated sixteenth installment in the global bestselling series by Jeff Kinney. Releasing in hardcover and eBook editions, Big Shot (Diary of a Wimpy Kid Book 16) will be simultaneously published in 28 countries…
A few years ago, the conventional wisdom was that physical books (and therefore, bookstores) were endangered species. All of us were going to get our reading material beamed directly into our various devices, if not our actual eyeballs, and there would no longer be physical books to buy. This isn’t happening. Print book sales are…
The Tweeks give us their review of the latest Diary of a Wimpy Kid book from Jeff Kinney and ponder what futures may await them next year in 7th grade. Hopefully less Homework Club for Maddy…
For one of the most popular book series of the last few years, the movie adaptation of Jeff Kinney’s Diary of a Wimpy Kid seems to be getting very little marketing push (as compared to, say, Percy Jackson and the Olympians) and it’s coming out in less than a month. But that may be changing….
First the good news: Amulet Books, an imprint of Abrams Books, is set to release the fourth book in Jeff Kinney’s Harvey Award-winning series, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days, on October 12, 2009 (October 13 in Canada). To support the release of the book, a Diary of a Wimpy Kid ice cream truck…
Best selling graphic novelist Jeff Kinney has another Wimpy Kid book set for release right after the New Year, and hopefully more to follow, but don’t look for The Kid to age too much. we’ll explain that today, plus: A new Pixar trailer this weekend An original Avengers story already set for Free Comic Book…
Not long before the buzz started on Watchmen, another graphic novel was also on just about everyone’s Must Read list, and it still is. Jeff Kinney’s Diary Of A Wimpy Kid is one of the cool comic creator success stories soon to be a major motion picture. In an exclusive interview, Jeff tells how it…
Interestingly, 20th-Century Fox is seeking a fresh face to play Greg Heffley, the star of Jeff Kinney’s Diary of a Wimpy Kid book series. The casting agent is seeking Males 11-14 only. Boys coming to the open call need to be able to handle dialog and ironic comedy, and should bring a current photo and…
Gotta love those studio bigwigs. Even in the midst of an impending Screen Actors Guild strike and the greatest financial crisis in modern American history, these head honchos still have dollar signs in their eyes. Variety is reporting today that studios are planning 40 or more films to begin production between spring and summer of…
Nine years ago, game developer Jeff Kinney started to write the diary of a boy named Gregg Heffley. A few years after that, he began to publish the story on the website FunBrain.com. Charles Kochman picked it up for the Harry N. Abrams imprint, Amulet Books, and the Diary of a Wimpy Kid phenomenon was…
