![]() Look under your bed tonight, and the muddy hand will be there waiting for you!įrom Oscar and Sam Maxfield, Salt Lake City: "Did you ever get a laundry hoop for Christmas, like Greg did?" So, I'm afraid I'm going to let Geoffrey down.įrom Greg Schieferstein, South Elgin, Ill.: "Why in the series The Last Straw do you show Greg in his tighty-whities on the front cover?"īecause a skinny kid in tighty-whities equals instant humor.įrom Ethan Herbst, River Edge, N.J.: "My name is Ethan and I'm 7 years old and I want to know what happens to the muddy hand!" He can't make any new friends because he only has Rowley and Rowley only has Greg. I think one of the fun things about Greg and Rowley is that their relationship is a suffocating relationship. Is Greg going to make any new friends besides Rowley? I think he should." A lot of kids ask, "How did you come up with a character like Fregley?" And I say, "I think most people have a kid like Fregley on their street, a kid that's a little strange, and if you don't know any kids that are like Fregley, then you might be Fregley."įrom Geoffrey Cochran, Burlington, Ky.: "I am a 9-year-old blogger who loves your books. ![]() HOLLY HILLS: I think most boys have this object of desire at their school, and they all seem to have a name that is alliterative or special in some way, and that's why I chose Holly Hills.įREGLEY: Fregley is just a name that I thought sounded like a kid who had freckles. So, I wanted to have this tiny little boy have this over-masculine name. I thought it was a mom trying to make her child sound more masculine. MANNY: The first time I heard the name Manny, I didn't know it was short for Emmanuel. The name sounded a bit slow and innocent and pure. ROWLEY: Rowley is a name of a town in Massachusetts, and I thought that sounded right for that character. So, I came up with a name to honor that kid who never came to be. GREG: I came up with the name Greg right away because my mom always wanted to have a son named Greg and she never did. Many fans wrote to NPR wanting to know how Kinney came up with the characters' names: We received hundreds of e-mails from kids who wanted to have their questions answered for once! Kinney answers some of those questions below. Warning to those who have never read Diary of a Wimpy Kid : These questions come straight from our youngest listeners and Kinney's biggest fans. Kinney writes the incredibly successful series Diary of a Wimpy Kid, about smart-mouthed middle-schooler Greg Heffley, who has only one real friend because he's, well, kind of a sad sack - think modern-day Charlie Brown. After college, he wanted to be a newspaper cartoonist, but after sending out his work and receiving a pile of rejection letters, he says, he realized he didn't have the artistic talents to draw at that level: "So what I decided to do was write and draw as a seventh-grade boy, because that's where I maxed out."Īll Things Considered enlisted help from kids around the country for an interview with children's book author Jeff Kinney. Kinney didn't always intend to write about middle school life. "Greg can't win, because that's Charlie Brown trying to kick the football and not kicking it. ![]() "I think most of Greg's unhappiness, he brings upon himself," the author explains. As Kinney tells Michele Norris, his character isn't a bad kid - just a "not-fully-formed person." Greg is the smart-mouthed sad-sack protagonist of Jeff Kinney's Diary of a Wimpy Kid book series ( read an excerpt). For now, one particularly meek kid named Greg Heffley is burning up children's book best-seller lists. The Bible says that the meek might one day inherit the earth. Jeff Kinney's newest book, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days is the largest book release so far this year, with 4 million copies in the first printing.
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