| Let's Pretend This Never Happened My Pants Are Haunted! Am I the Princess or the Frog? Never Do Anything, Ever Can Adults Become Human? The Problem With Here Is That It's Where I'm From Never Underestimate Your Dumbness It's Not My Fault I Know Everything That's What Friends Aren't For The Worst Things In Life Are Also Free Okay, So Maybe I Do Have Superpowers Me! (Just Like You, Only Better) Year Two School. Hasn't This Gone on Long Enough? The Super-Nice Are Super-Annoying Nobody's Perfect. I'm As Close As It Gets What I Don't Know Might Hurt Me You Can Bet on That Live Each Day to the Dumbest [1] Dumbness is a Dish Best Served Cold | |
| Author | Jim Benton |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Children's literature |
| Publisher | Scholastic Inc. |
| Published | 2004 - 2016 |
| Media type | Paperback |
Dear Dumb Diary is a series of children's novels by Jim Benton. Each book is written in the first person view of a middle school girl named Jamie Kelly. The series is published by Scholastic in English and Random House in Korean. Film rights to the series have been optioned by the Gotham Group. [2]
The series follows the adventures and awkward incidents of Jamie Kelly at Mackerel Middle School with her friends Isabella and Angeline. Her family life and school life are heavily intertwined, with her Aunt Carol being not only school staff but the assistant principal's wife, thus making most of the school staff family friends.
When writing about why she hates Angeline, Jamie often describes, in elaborate detail, Angeline’s kindness, beauty (particularly her self-styled blonde hair), intelligence, and other positive qualities. Because of this, the seemingly superficial nature of their shared crush on Hudson, and other factors, some readers have interpreted Jamie as a closeted lesbian with a tsundere crush on Angeline. Jim Benton stated: [4]
Your work can land in ways you can't predict. I always tried to write Jamie as a person who was forever discovering new things about herself and the people around her-and she was very often wrong at first. I'm certain that Jamie has all sorts of discoveries ahead of her.
Critical reception for the series has been mixed, [5] with Publishers Weekly writing that the lead character "makes the occasional funny observation, more often her stabs at humor miss their mark or are so protracted that the comic moment fizzles". [6] A reviewer for the Indian Express compared My Pants are Haunted! to the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, saying that fans of Wimpy Kid would like the series. [7]
A film version had been filmed in Salt Lake City, Utah, starring Emily Alyn Lind as Jamie and Mary-Charles Jones as Jamie’s best friend Isabella.
The movie premiered on Hallmark Channel on September 6, 2013, and is now available on streaming services like Netflix.
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