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Speaker 1: The book may be titled party Pooper, but there's plenty

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Speaker 1: to celebrate For author Jeff Kenney. He's touring the twentieth

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Speaker 1: installment in his Diary of Wimpy Kids series that sold

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Speaker 1: over three hundred million copies to date. I asked him

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Speaker 1: if he ever felt like something like this was possible.

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Speaker 2: I sort of did, in a rock star sort of way,

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Speaker 2: like every kid who's ever picked up a soccer ball

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Speaker 2: has imagined playing in the World Cup, And in that way,

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Speaker 2: I was like, oh, maybe one day, but I didn't

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Speaker 2: have a realistic hope of it.

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Speaker 1: Lovable Loser Greg Heffley has taken Kenny all over the

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Speaker 1: world and cross generations since he published the first book

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Speaker 1: all the way back in two thousand and seven. But

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Speaker 1: no matter where he goes, Kenny says, the story of

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Speaker 1: Greg resonates with people.

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Speaker 2: There's something very universal about childhood, Like we all across

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Speaker 2: cultures share a similar childhood with parents and bullies and

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Speaker 2: teachers and pets. So I think that those things we

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Speaker 2: all have in common, and that's what's appealing about the series.

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Speaker 1: He adds that especially gets to kick off the international

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Speaker 1: tour for his book right in his backyard front of

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Speaker 1: a packed house at King Philip Regional High School from Wrentham.

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Speaker 1: Kyle Bray, WBZ Boston's newsrate Yo