The Wimpy Kid Movie Diary: How Greg Heffley Went Hollywood is an illustrated behind-the-scenes companion to the Diary of a Wimpy Kid film adaptation, showing how Jeff Kinney’s cartoon diary world was transformed into a live-action movie. The book follows the process of casting Greg Heffley, building sets, designing costumes, planning scenes, filming jokes, and turning familiar drawings into actors, props, storyboards, photographs, and script pages. Unlike the main Wimpy Kid novels, this is a children’s nonfiction film diary that mixes humor, production details, movie stills, sketches, and new artwork by Jeff Kinney, making it especially interesting for readers who want to understand how books become movies. It gives fans a look at the gap between the page and the screen, where even a simple school hallway, backpack, costume, or cartoon expression has to be rebuilt so Greg’s awkward world can work in real life.
Author: Jeff Kinney
Publisher: Puffin Books
Year published: 2010
Number of pages: 199
Original language: English
Target age: 9 and up