Wimpy Kid Book 5 - 5 Million Copies Coming!

The news is out! Thanks to a news release from publisher Abrams, we now know something about the fifth book in the wildly popular Diary of a Wimpy Kid series by Jeff Kinney.

• The title of book five is Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Ugly Truth.
• As you can see, the cover is purple.
  
• Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Ugly Truth will have a first printing of more than 5 million copies. (Wow!)
• The book will be released on November 9, 2010.
• According to Charles Kochman, executive editor of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, "All of the favorite characters will be back but, like Greg Heffley, you will see them in a new light as Jeff explores the reality of adolescence."

According to Abrams, "Since the publication of the first Diary of a Wimpy Kid book in 2007, more than 35 million books are in print in the United States, and the books have been sold in more than 30 countries around the world." For an overview of all seven of the books that Jeff Kinney has written related to the Wimpy Kid, see Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Books. For more about book 5 in the series, see Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Ugly Truth.

(Cover art courtesy of Amulet Books, An Imprint of Abrams)