Some time ago, I purchased an audio book called The Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw, an unabridged recording of the third book from the best-selling series from Jeff Kinney. Today I finally got to listen to it. The book is aimed at young readers (Ages 8-12) – yet it’s extremely funny and a great listen for people of any age. Told in first person as if read from a real diary, the story reminded me of the one in the book Le Petit Nicolas and, similarly, has a movie adaptation (which I’m looking forward to watching).
The main protagonist is the young Greg Heffley who thinks of himself as “one of the most perfect people he knows” – and not surprisingly since he is just about to become a teenager. The audio book is really filled with humorous coming of age stories, which is why I won’t hesitate to recommend it highly to the readers of theskykid.com. For the younger readers, I would recommend checking out the story at Funbrain.com where the book can be read online in daily entries ( just like a real diary) and there are also some great cartoons there to accompany it.
After I got the audio book (2 hrs and 16 mins), I found out that the book itself was available at Amazon.com (Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw)
You may find out more about the book and its author at http://www.wimpykid.com/
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The movie “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” is also a very funny family film. It was quite enjoyable.
Well I’ve read all three book’s wrote by John van de Ruit Spud ,The Maddness Continues ,Learning to Fly .I bought the frist Dirary of a Whimpy Kid to compare not finished yet but so far the only comparison is subject matter the the story lines are way different it’s like you can have 6 red flowers but each is differrent
Are you referring to the books on which the movie Spud is based on ? I would love to have one of them or all as a series reviewed at the site.