

Which also explains why there was a comic strip references in his book where Rowley, a character in the book wanted to do school comics, but was rejected by the protagonist saying his idea will be bad. The author connected his own childhood dreams into the book, and then compares it to his own autobiography about his earlier period of his life. Jeff loves his own idea of this book and wants to still make it accessible to many people. His first book was released on April 2007, and was the New York Times bestseller, it even said so on the bookcover itself! Also during this time, Jeff also created, where he still continues to express new ideas everyday for the next children book, all of which is sequels of “Diary of a Wimpy kid”, because the fan base is huge and still supports it. The book attracted many young audiences due to it's cartoonish illustrations. Surprisingly, it had more than 80 million visits, and had around 70,000 kids reading the book. It was first advertised on a website called. Jeff had been working on his book for nearly eight years before publishing it. In 1998, Jeff Kinney came up with the idea of a book titled “ Diary of a Wimpy Kid”, a story about a middle school boy named Greg Heffley.

When he was growing up, he didn’t want to write children’s book, his dream was to be a newspaper cartoon artist and publish his own comic strips independently. “Diary of a wimpy kid” is an illustrated novel By Jeff Kinney.
