LI kids interview "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" author
Photo credit: Newsday/ | Kidsday reporters Kevin McKenna, Carley Allyson, Sienna Mullady and Dylan Valinchus from Kings Park Middle School, at the Bryant Park Ice rink with "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" author Jeff Kinney. (Nov 14, 2012)
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We interviewed "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" author Jeff Kinney when he was in Manhattan recently.
What inspired you to write?
I always wanted to be a newspaper cartoonist and I couldn't break in because my cartoons weren't good enough. So my drawings weren't good enough. So I decided to start writing as a seventh-grade kid and that's where I was real comfortable.
Was middle school this...
