Signs point to yes--an eighth Diary of a Wimpy Kid! You may rely on it--that's poor Greg Heffley being attacked by eight-balls. Yesterday at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair, Amulet/Abrams announced what will make an octet in its enormously successful Diary of a Wimpy Kid series by Jeff Kinney. Diary of a Wimpy Kid 8 will be published in the U.S. in November 2013, to be quickly followed by publication in the U.K., Australia, Germany, Greece, Japan, Korea and Norway.
More than 85 million Diary of a Wimpy Kid books are in print worldwide, and have sold in more than 44 territories in 42 languages. Three movies based on the book series have grossed more than $250 million internationally. The Wimpy Kid Island on poptropica.com, a virtual world for kids, remains one of the most visited on the site.