The next installment in NPR's Backseat Book Club heads back to where this all started: Diary of a Wimpy Kid, by Jeff Kinney.It was our 2009 interview with Kinney that sparked the idea for a ...

Now that Greg Heffley survived a gadget-free week (barely) in the last Diary of a Wimpy Kid book, the middle-schooler is ready for his next misadventure. Book 11 in Jeff Kinney’s hit illustrated ...

The first six volumes of "The Diary of a Wimpy Kid" are coming out Oct. 30 as e-books. The new novel, "Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Third Wheel," comes out simultaneously as a hardcover and an e-book ...

"In fact, the first draft was 1,300 pages long," Kinney said, ... Braver asked some young readers, "Raise your hand if you like the 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' books." All hands went up.

Jeff Kinney and First Book to donate 160,000 books It’s a big year for Kinney and Abrams Books, which publishes “Diary of a Wimpy Kid.” Not only is book 20 on the horizon, but they’re also ...

Author/illustrator Kinney’s first two books, last spring’s “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” and February’s “Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules,” both hit No. 1 on the New York Times best ...

Cabin Fever, the highly anticipated sixth installment of the Diary of the Wimpy Kid series, will get a monster first-run release of six million copies on Nov. 15, the largest of any book in the ...

The Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever, the sixth book in the popular kids series by Jeff Kinney, sold more than 1 million copies since its debut on Nov. 15, according to publisher Abrams.The first ...

Behold the cover of “Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hard Luck.” It is lime green. It features Wimpy Kid Greg Heffley being tormented by eight balls. It’s the eighth book in Jeff Kinney’s ...