by LESLIE KAUFMAN - The New York Times - Published: March 25, 2013
CHANTILLY, Va. — If you are one of those people whose lives do not include a girl under the age of 12 — and in that case, OMG I am SO SORRY for you!!! — then the “Dork Diaries,” a series for tweens that has sold over 10 million copies in less than four years, may have escaped your notice.
Rachel Renée Russell
In the "Dork Diaries," Nikki suffers many middle school humiliations.
The "Dork Diaries" author Rachel Renée Russell, center, with her daughters Erin, left, and Nikki. - Christopher Gregory/The New York Times
Time to get a CLUE!!!!!
The “Dork Diaries” are the journals of the socially aspiring, fashion-impaired Westchester Country Day School student Nikki Maxwell. Each volume chronicles one month of the major crises in Nikki’s eighth-grade life, like a lack of invitations to cool parties, her crush on Brandon and her tangles with the school snob MacKenzie Hollister — or as Nikki calls her, that “KILLER SHARK” in “sparkly nail polish.” Nikki lays it all out with humor, lots of embedded illustrations and plenty of CAPITALIZATION and exclamation points!!!!!
Channeling Nikki is the job of her creator, Rachel Renée Russell, a 53-year-old divorced former bankruptcy lawyer. The soft-spoken Ms. Russell insists that she is able to build a character that young readers relate to because for many years she too was a dork.
“I never had a date through high school, and my father had to pay a family friend $50 and loan him the Cadillac to get me a date for the prom,” she said with a laugh.
1 comment:
Really good review and I absolutely LOVE Dork Diaries very much! This is the first time I'm looking at Nikki and Erin! Thanks!
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