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Jeff Kinney’s ‘Diary of a Wimpy Kid’ series and Stephenie Meyer’s ‘Twilight’ books got 49,323,701 kids reading.

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I remember telling my second-graders the basic ‘Metamorphosis’ story, saying, like, ‘What about – what if a guy woke up one morning and he was a bug? Wouldn’t that be weird?’ And they loved that. And I think that was the trigger that made me think, like, ‘Oh man, here’s my audience. They’re just a lot shorter than I ever thought they might be.’

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May 3, 2024

I remember telling my second-graders the basic ‘Metamorphosis’ story, saying, like, ‘What about – what if a guy woke up one morning and he was a bug? Wouldn’t that be weird?’ And they loved that. And I think that was the trigger that made me think, like, ‘Oh man, here’s my audience. They’re just a lot shorter than I ever thought they might be.’

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