When parents freak out at their children’s match, Greg has to keep things calm: Scene from Jeff Kinney’s “Greg’s Diary: Direct Hit!”.
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The series “Greg’s Diary” is one of the greatest book successes of all time. An interview with the author Jeff Kinney about narrative strategies in comics, the filming of his stories and the Greta generation.
If you take it sporty, you can only catch up with Joanne K. Rowling. The inventor of “Harry Potter” is still ahead, but with 250 million copies of the iconic and much-copied series “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” sold, Jeff Kinney is hot on her heels. If there are still children’s rooms in which the famously pointed texts and cartoons are mixed up, and books that don’t care much about pedagogy from the perspective of an eternal high school student should not yet be found, then that could change now, because the sixteenth volume has just been published, this time entirely dedicated to sport: a particularly rich source of painful childhood memories from smelly changing rooms to epic defeats.
Because the sympathetic, lazy protagonist, who prefers to play on the computer, has nothing to do with this world of naked competition and rock-hard performance thinking, it will be pretty funny again. On December 3rd, the first animated film adaptation of “Greg’s Diary” (Volume 1), also written by Kinney, will follow on Disney +, with many more to follow. The author is currently doing a worldwide advertising tour for the new band. He made a stop in Germany, the seat of his local publishing house Baumhaus. These are no longer readings, which is also due to Corona. Instead, a thoroughly choreographed drive-thru show for fans took place in front of the Cologne stadium.
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