RBA
Diario de Greg 1: Un pringao total
Illustrated diary with cartoons by a lad surviving secondary school
- Age
- Ages 8 to 12
- Price
- €10 to €20
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Why it works
Greg writes his diary by hand and fills it with stick figures, and that format, halfway between a novel and a comic, is what gets even non-readers reading it. The humour is all blunders and annoying brothers. There are more than twenty instalments, all to the same formula.
Our verdict
The one that works best with reluctant readers aged nine to eleven. If you want more adventure and fewer jokes, go for Amanda Black.
They will like it if
- they find it hard to sit down and read
- they find school scrapes funny
- they prefer comics to novels
Bear in mind
- Greg is no role model, and that is where the fun comes from
- literature, strictly speaking, it is not
What's in the box
- 240 pages
- Hardback
- Author: Jeff Kinney
- Publisher: RBA, in Spanish
- Can be used alone
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