Children's Books Too Cool for School

Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney (A "Top 50 Post")


To some, the inclusion of this book on a "Best Kids' Book" list is almost sacrilege. This? Hold a candle to A Wrinkle in Time?

Well, no. But didn't anyone ever tell you about apples and oranges?

Here's what I like about this book. It's funny. (The Cheese Touch most of all!) It's realistic. Boys actually request and read it. But it doesn't mention underpants.

Boys are dying for stuff to read out there. This is why we can't keep a Captain Underpants book on the shelf. This is why Percy Jackson's rise in popularity has been meteoric. Who am I to tell them a funny book that they enjoy isn't "worth reading?"

(For all that, I list this as a single book and not a series, because, from Roderick Rules on, Greg just gets too mean for me.)