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| {{About|the book|the film|Diary of a Wimpy Kid Christmas: Cabin Fever}} | |||
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| | name = Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever | | name = Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever | ||
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| | language = English | | language = English | ||
| | series = '']'' | | series = '']'' | ||
| | genre = Comedy | | genre = Comedy/Survival | ||
| | publisher = ] (US) <br> ] (UK) | | publisher = ] (US) <br> ] (UK) | ||
| | pub_date = November 15, 2011 | | pub_date = November 15, 2011 | ||
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| '''''Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever''''' is a 2011 bestselling and award-winning children's book and the sixth book in the ], written by American author ].<ref>{{cite web|title=Author Jeff Kinney's hot streak not wimping out|url=http://seattletimes.com/html/books/2016801608_kidsbooks19.html?prmid=head_more|publisher=Seattle Times|access-date=25 November 2012}}</ref> The book was released on November 15, 2011, the paperback edition was released on January 31, 2013, and was the fastest-selling book of 2011,<ref>{{cite web|title=6 Million Copies Were Printed Of Diary Of A Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever|url=http://www.cinemablend.com/pop/6-Million-Copies-Were-Printed-Diary-Wimpy-Kid-Cabin-Fever-37257.html|publisher=Cinema Blend|access-date=25 November 2012}}</ref> giving him the third-strongest opening-week sales for a children's author.<ref>{{cite news|title=Diary of a Wimpy Kid becomes a top book seller|work=BBC News |date=23 November 2011 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-15857728|access-date=25 November 2012}}</ref> ''Cabin Fever'' had a first printing run of six million copies, which ] stated was one of their most significant titles for that year.<ref>{{cite web|title=Next 'Wimpy Kid' Book to Get Six Million-Copy First Printing|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-book-news/article/47633-next-wimpy-kid-book-to-get-six-million-copy-first-printing.html|publisher=Publishers Weekly|access-date=25 November 2012}}</ref> In 2012 Kinney won a "Best Author" ''Children's Choice Award'' from the ] for ''Cabin Fever''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Kinney, Selznick Nab Children's Choice Book Awards|url=http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/home/894496-312/kinney_selznick_nab_childrens_choice.html.csp|publisher=School Library Journal|access-date=25 November 2012}}</ref> The book received widespread acclaim from critics. The book was followed by 2012's '']'' |
'''''Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever''''' is a 2011 bestselling and award-winning children's book and the sixth book in the ], written by American author ].<ref>{{cite web |title=Author Jeff Kinney's hot streak not wimping out |url=http://seattletimes.com/html/books/2016801608_kidsbooks19.html?prmid=head_more |publisher=Seattle Times |access-date=25 November 2012}}</ref> The book was released on November 15, 2011, the paperback edition was released on January 31, 2013, and was the fastest-selling book of 2011,<ref>{{cite web|title=6 Million Copies Were Printed Of Diary Of A Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever|url=http://www.cinemablend.com/pop/6-Million-Copies-Were-Printed-Diary-Wimpy-Kid-Cabin-Fever-37257.html|publisher=Cinema Blend|access-date=25 November 2012|archive-date=3 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303233416/http://www.cinemablend.com/pop/6-Million-Copies-Were-Printed-Diary-Wimpy-Kid-Cabin-Fever-37257.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> giving him the third-strongest opening-week sales for a children's author.<ref>{{cite news|title=Diary of a Wimpy Kid becomes a top book seller|work=BBC News |date=23 November 2011 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-15857728|access-date=25 November 2012}}</ref> ''Cabin Fever'' had a first printing run of six million copies, which ] stated was one of their most significant titles for that year.<ref>{{cite web|title=Next 'Wimpy Kid' Book to Get Six Million-Copy First Printing|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-book-news/article/47633-next-wimpy-kid-book-to-get-six-million-copy-first-printing.html|publisher=Publishers Weekly|access-date=25 November 2012}}</ref> In 2012 Kinney won a "Best Author" ''Children's Choice Award'' from the ] for ''Cabin Fever''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Kinney, Selznick Nab Children's Choice Book Awards|url=http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/home/894496-312/kinney_selznick_nab_childrens_choice.html.csp|publisher=School Library Journal|access-date=25 November 2012}}</ref> The book received widespread acclaim from critics and is frequently said to be one of the best books in the series. The book was followed by 2012's '']''. | ||
| ==Plot== | ==Plot== | ||
| Greg has problems with the arrival of Christmas and the concept of Santa Claus's surveillance of good or bad children, and he wonders how this could be. His mother stumbles upon a doll known as "Santa's Scout" and uses it to prompt her children into good behavior. However, Greg's paranoia regarding the doll is taken advantage of by Rodrick, who uses it to prank his brother. | |||
| Meanwhile, Greg is preoccupied with a gaming website known as "Net Kritterz" and tending to the needs of his virtual pet and the website's required paid features. So he and Rowley devise various money-making ideas, which all backfire or fail. They soon decide to publish their tabloid newspaper, the Neighborhood Tattler, but find difficulties in selling and advertising it, and Greg fears that Rowley's additions to the newspaper will only damage their chances of selling copies. | |||
| Greg starts playing an online game called "Net Kritterz" which is based around treating a virtual pet and requires paid features. Greg's mom, Susan, doesn't want to give him money to spend on the site and says he has to earn money on his own. Greg tries some bad ideas for getting money until he finds out that he can buy "Drummies", tasty fried chicken snacks that are sold at his school's holiday bazaar, for less than the school sells them for, so he decides to start his own holiday bazaar and invites his best friend Rowley to do it with him. They first attempt to build a cardboard home-made version of '']'', which fails to work. They realize they need to advertise their bazaar and try to ask the local newspaper to do it. However, they discover the newspaper's advertising fee is very expensive, so they try to establish their own newspaper, ''The Neighborhood Tattler''. When a string of conflicts and failures prevent them from making their paper a reality, they decide to hang up posters that advertise their bazaar in their town, starting with the school, but rain causes all the ink to bleed on the school's walls, leaving green stains that won't come off. After narrowly escaping with only their facial shapes noted, the school administrators and police search for the culprits: they ask the whole student body to tell them who did it anonymously. Scared of getting caught, Rowley leaves a note at the principal's desk anonymously saying "Me and Greg Heffley vandalized the school." Greg explains to the principal that he hadn't meant to vandalize the school. The vice principal asks Greg if he would like to name his partner, but Greg refuses to avoid sending his friend into trauma and agrees to scrub the dye off himself. When Greg arrives home, he discovers a note from the police stating they visited to find nobody home and that they will return later; believing the vice principal went back on his word and has sold his name to them, Greg contemplates how he'll have to avoid his arrest. | |||
| Temporarily, they abandon their project to start their holiday bazaar after Greg buys "Drummies" (which are just pieces of ]) at his local supermarket that are cheaper than the ones sold at his school's holiday bazaar and decide to hang up posters advertising the bazaar on the walls of the school on brick walls, and the boys' antics are witnessed and published in the community newspaper, as their attempts at advertisement have inadvertently vandalized the school. Fears of being discovered fill Greg with paranoia, worrying that he will be shipped off to a ], and he dreads the day when his identity will be unveiled. | |||
| A blizzard suddenly hits town, shutting the family in their home and forcing Greg's father, Frank, to stay in a hotel during work. At one point, the electricity goes off and his family becomes extremely cold, nearly running short on food. After several days, Rowley visits and tells Greg that everyone else in their street has electricity, so Greg checks the power box and realizes that the power is down in all of the rooms except for the room of his little brother Manny. The family finds Manny living luxuriously in his room surrounded by food, warmth, and toys without notifying anyone because, as Manny claims, nobody taught him how to tie his shoes. Greg switches the power back on to the entire house, the blizzard ends, the snow is plowed out, and Frank comes home with food just in time. | |||
| Eventually, Rowley snaps and informs the school via an anonymous tip (reading "Me and Greg Heffley vandalized the school") that they were the ones who accidentally vandalized the school, but he doesn't admit his involvement. Greg confesses to his responsibility for the accidental vandalism, and vice-principal Roy gives him a choice: Greg could name the "Me" person, and they would both take the punishment together, or Greg could take the punishment himself. Greg decides to take it himself. As punishment, Greg is forced to stay after school and scrub the paint off the walls with bleach. | |||
| Before Christmas, Susan asks Greg to take a gift to the police station to place in their toy drive box. Afraid of spending the holidays in prison, Greg manages to do so stealthily, but when he's near the church, he realizes he asked for money at the Giving Tree earlier, requesting his gift to be placed under the recycling bin, and shovels the snow from their entire driveway to find it. He eventually finds the bin but is disappointed to find no cash. When Greg comes home, the police arrive to his horror, but it is revealed they were only asking for toys for the toy drive. After awkwardly offering them a used toy that they reject, the officers leave. Christmas finally arrives, and Greg breathes relief that he's not wanted after all, and he spends the holidays with the gifts he got. Later, Greg discovers the newspaper praising his act of clearing the church driveway to allow a soup kitchen to operate because so many businesses closed during the blizzard, although the face mask he wore prevents his actual recognition. He promptly publishes a photo of himself in ''The Neighborhood Tattler'', stating he is the one who shoveled the driveway. | |||
| When he gets home, however, he finds a note from the police on the front door of the Heffley house, and he assumes that vice-principal Roy sold him out to the police. A sudden ] isolates the Heffleys within their home, resulting in a power outage that spoils their food and causes a basement flood. | |||
| Frank, Greg's father, in the meantime, is stranded at a hotel near his workplace, and the family lives in hunger and boredom for the following few days until Rowley comes over and reveals to Greg that his house still has electricity along with the rest of the town except for apparently Greg's household. A quizzical Greg checks the family's electricity box, only to find that the power has been shut off in all rooms of the house, excluding Manny's bedroom, and soon discovers that Manny has been living luxuriously in his bedroom surrounded by food, warmth, and toys without notifying his family because nobody taught him how to tie his shoes. The electricity is returned to the house, and Frank returns with food for the rest of his family. | |||
| The following day is Christmas, and Greg discovers himself on the cover of the newspaper for anonymously shoveling the walkway leading up to the Church (however, only to recover a tag he'd hung up on the giving tree requesting money) that allows a soup kitchen to be opened. He chooses to exploit himself on the front cover of his own tabloid newspaper in order to receive gifts that people may send to him. | |||
| ==Reception== | ==Reception== | ||
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| ==Adaptations== | ==Adaptations== | ||
| {{Main|Diary of a Wimpy Kid Christmas: Cabin Fever}} | |||
| In December 2012, Jeff Kinney announced that he was working on an animated adaptation of ''Cabin Fever'' to air around Christmas 2013.<ref>{{cite web|title=DIARY OF A WIMPY KID GETS ANIMATED MOVIE|url=http://www.redcarpetnewstv.com/diary-of-a-wimpy-kid-gets-animated-movie/|publisher=Red Carpet News TV|access-date=27 August 2013}}</ref> In August 2013, Kinney stated it would be a half-hour television special, and would air on ] in late 2014.<ref>{{cite news|last=Minzesheimer|first=Bob|title=Narrator hits 'Hard Luck' in eighth Wimpy Kid book|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/books/2013/08/08/wimpy-kid-hard-luck-jeff-kinney/2628639/|access-date=27 August 2013|newspaper=USA Today|date=2013-08-08}}</ref> | In December 2012, Jeff Kinney announced that he was working on an animated adaptation of ''Cabin Fever'' to air around Christmas 2013.<ref>{{cite web|title=DIARY OF A WIMPY KID GETS ANIMATED MOVIE|url=http://www.redcarpetnewstv.com/diary-of-a-wimpy-kid-gets-animated-movie/|publisher=Red Carpet News TV|access-date=27 August 2013}}</ref> In August 2013, Kinney stated it would be a half-hour television special, and would air on ] in late 2014.<ref>{{cite news|last=Minzesheimer|first=Bob|title=Narrator hits 'Hard Luck' in eighth Wimpy Kid book|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/books/2013/08/08/wimpy-kid-hard-luck-jeff-kinney/2628639/|access-date=27 August 2013|newspaper=USA Today|date=2013-08-08}}</ref> | ||
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On September 8, 2023, ] announced they would be releasing a film adaptation of ''Cabin Fever'' for ] on December 8, 2023 called '']''.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Petski |first1=Denise |title='Diary Of A Wimpy Kid Christmas: Cabin Fever' Sets Release Date On Disney+ |url=https://deadline.com/2023/09/diary-of-a-wimpy-kid-christmas-cabin-fever-release-date-disney-plus-1235541386/ |website=Deadline Hollywood |date=September 8, 2023}}</ref> | ||
| ==References== | ==References== | ||
Latest revision as of 00:11, 10 December 2024
2011 children's book by Jeff Kinney This article is about the book. For the film, see Diary of a Wimpy Kid Christmas: Cabin Fever. | |
| Author | Jeff Kinney |
|---|---|
| Illustrator | Jeff Kinney |
| Cover artist | Jeff Kinney |
| Language | English |
| Series | Diary of a Wimpy Kid |
| Genre | Comedy/Survival |
| Publisher | Amulet Books (US) Puffin Books (UK) |
| Publication date | November 15, 2011 January 31, 2013 (paperback) |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardcover), (paperback) |
| Pages | 224 (217 story pages) |
| ISBN | 978-1-4197-0296-9 |
| Preceded by | The Ugly Truth |
| Followed by | The Third Wheel |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever is a 2011 bestselling and award-winning children's book and the sixth book in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, written by American author Jeff Kinney. The book was released on November 15, 2011, the paperback edition was released on January 31, 2013, and was the fastest-selling book of 2011, giving him the third-strongest opening-week sales for a children's author. Cabin Fever had a first printing run of six million copies, which Amulet Books stated was one of their most significant titles for that year. In 2012 Kinney won a "Best Author" Children's Choice Award from the Children's Book Council for Cabin Fever. The book received widespread acclaim from critics and is frequently said to be one of the best books in the series. The book was followed by 2012's The Third Wheel.
Plot
Greg has problems with the arrival of Christmas and the concept of Santa Claus's surveillance of good or bad children, and he wonders how this could be. His mother stumbles upon a doll known as "Santa's Scout" and uses it to prompt her children into good behavior. However, Greg's paranoia regarding the doll is taken advantage of by Rodrick, who uses it to prank his brother.
Meanwhile, Greg is preoccupied with a gaming website known as "Net Kritterz" and tending to the needs of his virtual pet and the website's required paid features. So he and Rowley devise various money-making ideas, which all backfire or fail. They soon decide to publish their tabloid newspaper, the Neighborhood Tattler, but find difficulties in selling and advertising it, and Greg fears that Rowley's additions to the newspaper will only damage their chances of selling copies.
Temporarily, they abandon their project to start their holiday bazaar after Greg buys "Drummies" (which are just pieces of fried chicken) at his local supermarket that are cheaper than the ones sold at his school's holiday bazaar and decide to hang up posters advertising the bazaar on the walls of the school on brick walls, and the boys' antics are witnessed and published in the community newspaper, as their attempts at advertisement have inadvertently vandalized the school. Fears of being discovered fill Greg with paranoia, worrying that he will be shipped off to a juvenile detention center, and he dreads the day when his identity will be unveiled.
Eventually, Rowley snaps and informs the school via an anonymous tip (reading "Me and Greg Heffley vandalized the school") that they were the ones who accidentally vandalized the school, but he doesn't admit his involvement. Greg confesses to his responsibility for the accidental vandalism, and vice-principal Roy gives him a choice: Greg could name the "Me" person, and they would both take the punishment together, or Greg could take the punishment himself. Greg decides to take it himself. As punishment, Greg is forced to stay after school and scrub the paint off the walls with bleach.
When he gets home, however, he finds a note from the police on the front door of the Heffley house, and he assumes that vice-principal Roy sold him out to the police. A sudden blizzard isolates the Heffleys within their home, resulting in a power outage that spoils their food and causes a basement flood.
Frank, Greg's father, in the meantime, is stranded at a hotel near his workplace, and the family lives in hunger and boredom for the following few days until Rowley comes over and reveals to Greg that his house still has electricity along with the rest of the town except for apparently Greg's household. A quizzical Greg checks the family's electricity box, only to find that the power has been shut off in all rooms of the house, excluding Manny's bedroom, and soon discovers that Manny has been living luxuriously in his bedroom surrounded by food, warmth, and toys without notifying his family because nobody taught him how to tie his shoes. The electricity is returned to the house, and Frank returns with food for the rest of his family.
The following day is Christmas, and Greg discovers himself on the cover of the newspaper for anonymously shoveling the walkway leading up to the Church (however, only to recover a tag he'd hung up on the giving tree requesting money) that allows a soup kitchen to be opened. He chooses to exploit himself on the front cover of his own tabloid newspaper in order to receive gifts that people may send to him.
Reception
The book received critical acclaim, with the book being nominated for a 2012 Harvey Award for a "Special Award for Humor in Comics". Publishers Weekly and Entertainment Weekly both praised the entry, with Publishers Weekly writing that although the snow storm doesn't occur until later in the read, "it’s unlikely that anyone will mind".
Adaptations
Main article: Diary of a Wimpy Kid Christmas: Cabin FeverIn December 2012, Jeff Kinney announced that he was working on an animated adaptation of Cabin Fever to air around Christmas 2013. In August 2013, Kinney stated it would be a half-hour television special, and would air on Fox in late 2014.
On September 8, 2023, Disney announced they would be releasing a film adaptation of Cabin Fever for Disney+ on December 8, 2023 called Diary of a Wimpy Kid Christmas: Cabin Fever.
References
- "Author Jeff Kinney's hot streak not wimping out". Seattle Times. Retrieved 25 November 2012.
- "6 Million Copies Were Printed Of Diary Of A Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever". Cinema Blend. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 25 November 2012.
- "Diary of a Wimpy Kid becomes a top book seller". BBC News. 23 November 2011. Retrieved 25 November 2012.
- "Next 'Wimpy Kid' Book to Get Six Million-Copy First Printing". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 25 November 2012.
- "Kinney, Selznick Nab Children's Choice Book Awards". School Library Journal. Retrieved 25 November 2012.
- "Multimedia Review: May 2012". School Library Journal. Retrieved 25 November 2012.
- "The 2012 Harvey Award Nominees". School Library Journal. Retrieved 25 November 2012.
- "Review: Cabin Fever". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 25 November 2012.
- "Review: Cabin Fever". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 25 November 2012.
- "DIARY OF A WIMPY KID GETS ANIMATED MOVIE". Red Carpet News TV. Retrieved 27 August 2013.
- Minzesheimer, Bob (2013-08-08). "Narrator hits 'Hard Luck' in eighth Wimpy Kid book". USA Today. Retrieved 27 August 2013.
- Petski, Denise (September 8, 2023). "'Diary Of A Wimpy Kid Christmas: Cabin Fever' Sets Release Date On Disney+". Deadline Hollywood.
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