Mudd and all the kids make fun of him and call him Pee Mudd.ĭeath, Violence and Gore Much of the violence in this book occurs in cartoon form, where the main character will show he (or someone else) was hit, kicked, shoved, etc.
A student, Preston Mudd, has an award with his name posted on it as P. A few cartoons of people crossing their legs because they have to pee so badly. There are references to diaper rash, loaded diapers, farts, a kid who says juice when he has to use the bathroom. A cartoon depicts a teacher pooping his pants. At the zoo the children watch the animals go to the bathroom. Roderick leaves dirty underwear on the kitchen table. Nothing is bad enough that they’d bleep it on television, but given that this book is often read by third graders, there is some vocabulary to be aware of: “jerk” used 6 times, “stupid” used 5 times, “dumb” used 5 times, “morons” used 3 times, “screwing up/screw up” used 3 times, “heck” used twice, “idiot”, and a “Thank God”.īathroom Humor I’m kind of unsure where to put the references to “kissing butt” but here will have to do. Profanity – This book specializes in profanity “lite”. Roderick is found with a magazine that features a girl in a bikini on the cover. Sex, Nudity, Dating – There is talk of “hot girls,” “cute butts” and kissing. It’s not an easy book, so it won’t work as well for struggling readers that don’t enjoy reading, unless you go as high as fifth and sixth grade. Personally though, I couldn’t get over what a selfish snot Greg was and how he didn’t ever seem to have remorse for anything he did (or enough remorse to try to change or fix things).Īlso, for the first time, I’ve added a bathroom category below, since much of the humor in this book hinges on poop and pee.Ī Possibility For:As with many books that bring in the laughs with slapstick violence and bathroom jokes, this is a possibility for boys that don’t love reading. Do all these things add up to big laughs with some kids? Absolutely. It’s his fault his grandmother’s house gets toilet papered on Halloween, but he doesn’t help clean up because he figures she’s retired and doesn’t have anything else to do. He destroys his little brother’s snowman. He runs for class office, but runs a smear campaign. He invents a game where he gets to try to knock his friend off a bike with a football, but he refuses to ever take a turn on the bike himself. He chases kindergartners with a worm and lets his best friend get in trouble for it, even though this means his best friend can’t be on the safety patrol anymore. He throws apples at a girl hitting her in the face. I don’t mean that in a goody-two shoes kind of way, I mean that he really is pretty awful to the people around him. One of the things that I found bothered me is that Greg is just not a nice kid. There is an actual plot, and the humor involves more than just I hate school and girls are stupid. Where this differs from My Weird School is that it is a lot more sophisticated. While this books might be funny to girls as well, as with the My Weird School books, girls are not portrayed favorably. Then again, if I were a middle school boy, I would probably be very into these things.
DIARY OF A WIMPY KID FUNNY PAGES SERIES
As you saw from my reviews of the My Weird School series I don’t love books that are into calling things dumb and stupid. I feel like I should recuse myself from this because it’s just not my kind of book. Both the content and the reading level are most likely not appropriate for children that young, but when they grab the book from the shelves they’re able to read the simple words above the cartoons and are convinced they could read the whole thing. Although the book takes place in middle school, and is in fact most appropriate for those grades, the cartoon illustrations that are peppered throughout the book make it wildly appealing to kids as young as second grade. The fifth book in the series becomes available on November 9th and can be pre-ordered now. This past year it was made into a movie, effectively creating even more devotees. Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney is huge and it’s only getting bigger.
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