Become a Wimp
I was planning on doing an On Hold @ the Library post last month, but when I went to check out the hold shelf at my school library and it was all Diary of a Wimpy Kid books. Every last one. Telling you Jeff Kinney’s series is popular is like telling me I don’t have any trouble spelling the word recieved… recevied… whatever.
With the release of the Wimpy Kid movie nigh (March 19th (click here to watch the trailer)), I saw via Mishaps and Adventures that they put together a little website that lets you create a Wimpy likeness of yourself. Here’s my attempt:
That’s pretty much me. Click here to give it a try. *Note* I had trouble pulling this up in my Firefox browser. It worked great when I switched to Chrome.
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My library has 10 copies of /Dog Days/, and ALL of them are checked out ALL of the time, with zillions of holds. It’s awesome.
I had fun, so did my kids!
[...] Your Way, Literacy My Way Down Under. Thanks to the always-on-top-of-cool-things Travis Jonkers at 100 Scope Notes, I was add a little creativity of my own to my post today. It’s a book (Diary of a Wimpy Kid) [...]