Diary of a Wimpy Kid author spotted in Ballard

My Ballard reader Daniel emailed in some photos of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid bus that he spotted in Ballard on Wednesday afternoon. According to @SecretGardenBks, Wimpy Kid author Jeff Kinney was in the neighborhood for a special event hosted by Secret Gardens Book.

The Wimpy Kid book series started off online on Funbrain.com in 2004 and was first printed in April 2007. It is now an international phenomenon with over 75 million copies in print in 41 different languages. Kinney came up with the idea in 1998 and worked on the book for almost eight years before he showed it to publishers in New York.

Thanks Daniel for letting us know about the sighting!