文档介绍：我们全部是小屁孩|小屁孩什么意思
Host: Move over, Harry Potter. Step aside, Bridge to Terabithia注1. There’s a new set of titles dominating the bestseller list for kids’ chapter books, and there is nothing fantasy about these. It’s the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, written and drawn by Jeff Kinney. These are the journals of Greg Heffley, detailing his 1)trials as a 2)scrawny kid making the life-changing transition from elementary to middle school.
Author Jeff Kinney joins me now. They don’t look like normal kids’ chapter books. They’re like copies of the main character’s diary.
Kinney: Right. I actually got the idea from being
a failed cartoonist,
actually. I really wanted to be a newspaper
3)strip cartoonist, and I found myself playing far too many video games, so I started keeping a journal to kind of shame myself into writing my comic
strips. But as I was writing a journal, I was doing these little 4)doodles in the
5)margins, and I thought that’s a pretty appealing 6)format.
Host: The story is told from the point of view of Greg Heffley. He’s the main character. He’s the wimpy kid. This is his diary. Describe Greg for us.
Kinney: I actually think Greg is a bit morally 7)bankrupt. I think he’s…he’s 8)petty. He’s…he’s a little bit 9)wicked. He’s
10)put-upon, but he also treats the people underneath him a little bit badly. But I think that Greg’s just kind of