Join in with our one year anniversary Nosy Crow Reading Group this week!

This month’s Nosy Crow Reading Group (our one-year anniversary!) is taking place on Thursday, and we’d love for you to join in!

We’ll be discussing two of the biggest children’s publishing phenomena of recent years: Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney, and Dork Diaries by Rachel Renée Russell. As usual, we’ve prepared a few questions in advance to get everyone thinking – here’s some of what we might be talking about:

1) How important is “plot” in Wimpy Kid and Dork Diaries?

2) Do you think these books break down, or reinforce, social hierarchies?

3) Are readers encouraged to identify with the protagonists of the two books? Are they reliable narrators?

4) What effect does the diary form have?

5) How far are Wimpy Kid and Dork Diaries “for boys” or “for girls”? Is this to their detriment?

Places for the physical event have now all gone, but we hope you’ll be able to join us online, if you’d like – you can leave your comments underneath this blogpost, or join us on the night on Twitter from 6.30pm with the #NCGKids hashtag.

We hope you can join us!