Diary of a Wimpy Kid author Jeff Kinney didn't grow up wanting to be a children's author. His dream was to become a newspaper cartoonist, but he wasn't able to get his comic strips syndicated.

RODRICK:
(WHISPERING) Greg?

GREG:
(GROGGILY) Mmm.

- (IN SINGSONG) Greg?

- What?

- Greg!

- Huh? What?

What are you doing? Get up!

Mom and Dad have been calling you

for an hour.

You're about to be late for

your first day of middle school.

What?

Oh, geez! How did that happen?

Go, go, go! Mom's about to flip out!

She sent me to get you

while she waits in the car!

(EXCLAIMS)

What are you doing? What's going on?

Getting ready for...

(HOOTING)

...school.

Are you insane?

School doesn't start till next week.

And, FYI, school doesn't start

at 4:
00 in the morning!

You woke up Manny.

And if he doesn't go back down...

Good morning!

There is no way he is going back down.