Jun 29, 2012

Somehow appropriate

www.npr.org/2012/06/29/155241074/gross-out-gags-and-life-lessons-in-wimpy-kid
Kinney's books are read around the world, from Japan to Israel to Germany, though in Germany they have a slightly different title: Greg's Journal: I'm Surrounded by Idiots. 
"I said, 'Why can't we just call it Diary of a Wimpy Kid like we call it in the U.S.?' 
And they said, 'Well, that's because there is no word for 'wimp' in Germany.'


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