Diary of a Wimpy Kid Do-It-Yourself Book

Customer Reviews

• Tricks...I mean inspires...kids into enjoying drawing and writing!  Jan 28, 2009 (17 of 22 found this helpful)

  About the book: Instead of a novel, about half of the book is a workbook of sorts -- including survey pages (like: "Five things NOBODY knows about you"), themed drawing pages (like under the heading: "The WORST NIGHTMARE you ever had"), unfinished comic pages (in the typical Wimpy Kid style, where you finish the comic or add text to the balloons). The other half of the book is lined blank journal pages.
  
  We bought this for my 9-year old son because it was a 'Wimpy Kid' title. Despite that, I wasn't expecting him to do more than page through it a couple times, because although he loves the Wimpy Kid series, he has never gone out of his way to write anything more than has been absolutely necessary for school.
  
  To my surprise, my son loves this book. He's had this book about 8 months now and continues to come back to it. He's drawn his own cartoons, filled in many of the surveys, and has written numerous pages of journal entries. Before this Do-It-Yourself book he had no interest in writing; now he comes back to the book often to add to it.
  
  This book has opened my son to the world of journaling. What's more, when he's grown it'll give him a snapshot of what a funny, goofy kid he was.

• Great book for even early readers.  Oct 13, 2008 (11 of 16 found this helpful)

  My son first discovered the Wimpy Kid books when he was in 1st grade. He loved the first two, and when we saw there was a new one, he wanted it right away. (Before he even opened it, he saw on the back cover that another new one was coming out, and he got even more excited). This book is more of the same (which is a good thing), and it adds a lot of blank areas within the story where it encourages readers to use their imagination and add to the author's story.
  
  My son starting reading this book in the store, and didn't put it down until he had finished it. The last half of the book is just lined pages for the reader to write their own stories. I am going to encourage my son to write in it a little every day.
  
  I can strongly recommend this book to parents of children not only in middle school, but elementary school too.

• We want normal books!  Nov 8, 2008 (11 of 17 found this helpful)

  I write this review not only in my name but also on behalf of a group of my friends. We all love Wimpy Kid series and we have read the two previous Wimpy Kid diaries. So, naturally we were all excited about the newest title in the series. However, we were rather disappointed in it. This is not like the previous books that were full of funny stories. Most of this book you have to write yourself! Well, not all of us are so creative to write our own books. We rather read them! Well, we tried to fill out a few pages and let others read them, but it actually turned out to be a blunder and we got bored with it pretty fast...
  So, I guess, my message to the author of the book is to continue writing more Wimpy Kid diaries the way it was done before. I hope that the next book, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw (Diary of a Wimpy Kid), will be as interesting as the previous two. In the meantime, if you want to know what really rocks, check the series of Why Some Cats are Rascals, Book 2

• "This is a journal, not a diary."  Feb 2, 2009 (3 of 5 found this helpful)

  Written as Greg Heffley's own "diary," this Do-It-Yourself book has many pages of things to do, fill in, draw, and finish for fans of the previous Diary of a Wimpy Kid books. The cartoons are funny, the questions aimed at middle schoolers; there is plenty of fun for kids. There are some color cartoons in the center of the book, collected from Greg, and his best friend Rowley. The last half of the book are blank pages to use as your own diary, or as Greg says "This is a journal, not a diary."

• Good book  Oct 29, 2008 (3 of 5 found this helpful)

  I ordered this book for my 10 year old son and he loves it. There are so many different things to do, including the diary. He mainly enjoys the madlibs but who doesnt. Great buy, I would recommend to any parent who has a child with a vivid imagination.