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How to Write a Children's Book With Jeff Kinney, Author of ‘Diary of a Wimpy Kid’

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Kids Respond to the Moral Universe You Create

The central joke of gregg hefley is that he's a mess, you know, he's a messy person. Andi'm like, yea, you're right. I feel whenever there's a celebrity or an adult author who then comes into the children's book world, they always start with a moral right? They really likea a lotof, a lot of children's authors start with the question of what is the thing that i'm trying to say and kids can sniff that out. It's why my kids went straight from watching barney to phineas and ferbthere is no end between,. But then eventually they are like, i don't want to sing a

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