Edgy Mama

I’m really excited about this week’s column about the new book in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series. I scored a (short) interview with the author, Jeff Kinney.

Here’s an excerpt:

We’re so into Wimpy Kid that we’ve been talking about Oct. 12 like it was the day of the second coming. Both kids were home sick on the release day (strange how that happened), but not so sick that they couldn’t talk me into driving down to Accent on Books to buy a just-out-of-the-box copy of Dog Days. I agreed only after I told the kids we were buying only one copy, and they’d have to read it together and/or share it. Which totally didn’t work. They were fighting over the book before we left the store, and I had to confiscate it until we got home. They managed to read the first 40 or so pages side by side on the sofa (adorable) before the fighting broke out again (not adorable). Ultimately, I let them trade off the book every 15 minutes until bedtime. Then I gave in and bought another copy the next day—both finished the book that afternoon, then started re-reading it. My girl said, “It’s the best Wimpy Kid book ever!”

Read the rest of the column here.