The Wimpy Kid's Best Friend Gets A Diary Of His Own ... And He's 'Awesome'
After 13 installments in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, Greg Heffley's best friend finally tells his own story. Diary of an Awesome Friendly Kid is all about Rowley, whose superpower is kindness.
by Scott Simon
Apr 13, 2019
3 minutes
When Jeff Kinney started working on Diary of a Wimpy Kid, he thought he was writing a comic for adults. "I always thought of comics as being for grown-ups, or maybe just for everyone," he says. After eight years of work, he finally showed it to an editor and learned: "I had actually written a children's series which was an absolute surprise to me."
That "surprise" has now sold 180 million copies. There are 13 installments of Greg Heffley's diary and
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