How to Write a Children's Book With Jeff Kinney, Author of ‘Diary of a Wimpy Kid’
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Are You a Kid's Book?
i didn't think of this as a kid's property at all, not even for a second in the eight years that i wrote it. I was thinking about comics as being four grown ups. My father is the one who introduced me toa karl bark's comics,. The donald duck and uncle scrooge classics from the 19 forties and fifties. And then he was the one that opened the comics page to then, in the washington post. He started laughing right away. It's why we came here. That's a completely miraculous bookdeal story, it is.
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