Forget Harry Potter, Jeff Kinney's 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' sells millions

  • 10 years ago
One of the biggest children's authors in the world talks to Eve Jackson about how he went from being a newspaper cartoonist reject to writing bestsellers, being named as one of Time magazine's top 100 most influential people and dining with American presidents. Jeff Kinney is in France as the 8th book in the series "Hard Luck" is translated into French. His 9th book 'The Long Haul' is available in English now.

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