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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|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 '']''.
'''''Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever'''''<ref name="six"></ref> is the sixth book in the ], written by American author ]. It was first announced in ''The Ugly Truth'' as "More ''Diary of a Wimpy Kid''", then it was announced in ''The Wimpy Kid Do-It-Yourself Book'' as "''Diary of a Wimpy Kid 6''". The title and book cover was announced on June 16, 2011. It was released on November 15, 2011.<ref name="Cabin">{{cite book |last=Kinney |first=Jeff |authorlink=Jeff Kinney (writer) |title=Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever |origyear=2011 |origmonth=November |accessdate=November 21, 2011 |series=] |publisher=]}}</ref>


==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.
It's almost Christmas, and ] is paranoid because "Santa's Scout" is watching them and reporting back to ]. At school, bullying is a problem, and there is only one bully at Greg's school. Meanwhile, the school is having problems paying the insurance for the playground. The school took away every piece of equipment where a student got injured. The teachers rule is that nobody is allowed to run or even sit down. During school, Greg is having trouble with focusing since the students having recess always came to the window. Greg then talks about how he had gotten a doll for Christmas. It was for preparing for his new brother (Manny). He really liked the doll, but one day, he lost the doll. So he got a ] and drew on a face with marker. It worked out until it got smelly. So Greg played an online game called ''Net Kritterz''. Rowley came over for a while. Later, Greg went around his neighborhood looking for somebody's lawn to shovel snow off of for some money. He found a person on Prentice Lane. When he started shoveling the snow, when it started snowing again. He had an idea to take his Gramma's lawn mower. It only went through the snow and stayed where it was. Greg had another idea to take the person's sprinkler to melt the snow and it worked, but a while later, it turned slippery.


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.
The cafeteria took a lot of unhealthy foods off the menu. Greg talks about how he got the ''Tower of Druids'' graphic novel signed by the author. When Greg was younger, he wanted to be an author himself. He copied from a book, and his mom sent it to a publisher in ]. Later Greg finds ''Drummies'' at the store. Greg had an idea to sell the drummies and have a Holiday Bazaar to make some money. His school did have it's own Holiday Bazaar. Greg wanted to make his own newspaper and put the news about the Holiday Bazaar. When they were finished, Greg went to his school and asked the Vice Principal if he could sell the newspaper to the school. He said no so Greg made posters to put on the school wall. It started to rain and the rain made the ink on the poster bleed. It left green splotches on the wall. Somebody saw what they had done and Greg and Rowley ran. The next day, the Vandalism appeared in the town newspaper. This isn't the first time Greg has done a crime. Rowley was scared that his future might be ruined. The police came to the school and called downthe worst trouble makers. Greg was called down the next day and so he told the police and the Vice Principal abot the poster and the rain. Vice Principal Roy made Greg clean the splothches off the wall.


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.
Later, it started snow a lot. Greg realizes that a ] is starting. His ''Net Kritterz'' account is locked, so he can't purchase more tokens. Greg's mom wanted the family to stay active during the blizzard. So she got a n exercise game to use on Greg's system. Mom didn't want her sons to slow down on their education so she made a class for them. Greg did a magic trick in front of Manny where there was a magic hole in the table. So Manny took Mom's glasses and broke them. Now Mom can't see. The basement flooded a little while later. A bunch of the family's special things got ruined. Rodrick was still sleeping in his bed.
Since the basement is Rodrick's room, he moved into Greg's Room. The house was running low on food, and blizzard was showing no signs of stopping. The electricity was cut for a few seconds. A few days later, Rowley came over. Greg was confused that all the houses had their Christmas lights on. He looked at the circuit breaker, and the only switch that was on was Manny's room. After Greg put the switches on to the rest of the house, Dad came home with food. Greg's mom wanted Greg to put the gift to the Toy Drive. Greg searched for his gift and it wasn't there. During Christmas, there weren't any gifts under the tree. Santa put the gifts in garbage bags.<ref name="Cabin"/>


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.
==Creation==

Kinney was trapped inside his house in ] during a ] that happened in January of 2011. He stated that for three long months, the snow piled up and his new dog he had got before the blizzard happened had an only knowledge of a tunnel that was dug on the piled-up snow to 'supposedly' relieve himself.(He said that the dog relieved in the heated family room of Kinney's home)<ref name="Cabin"/>
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==
The book received critical acclaim,<ref>{{cite web|title=Multimedia Review: May 2012|url=http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/reviews/multimedia/894167-318/multimedia_review_may_2012.html.csp|publisher=School Library Journal|access-date=25 November 2012}}</ref> with the book being nominated for a 2012 ] for a "Special Award for Humor in Comics".<ref>{{cite web|title=The 2012 Harvey Award Nominees|url=http://blog.schoollibraryjournal.com/goodcomicsforkids/2012/07/10/the-2012-harvey-award-nominees/|publisher=School Library Journal|access-date=25 November 2012}}</ref> '']'' and '']'' 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".<ref>{{cite web|title=Review: Cabin Fever|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-4197-0223-5|publisher=Publishers Weekly|access-date=25 November 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Review: Cabin Fever|url=http://shelf-life.ew.com/2011/11/15/diary-of-a-wimpy-kid-cabin-fever-review/|publisher=Entertainment Weekly|access-date=25 November 2012}}</ref>

==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>

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>


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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.
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever
AuthorJeff Kinney
IllustratorJeff Kinney
Cover artistJeff Kinney
LanguageEnglish
SeriesDiary of a Wimpy Kid
GenreComedy/Survival
PublisherAmulet Books (US)
Puffin Books (UK)
Publication dateNovember 15, 2011 January 31, 2013 (paperback)
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardcover), (paperback)
Pages224 (217 story pages)
ISBN978-1-4197-0296-9
Preceded byThe Ugly Truth 
Followed byThe 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 Fever

In 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

  1. "Author Jeff Kinney's hot streak not wimping out". Seattle Times. Retrieved 25 November 2012.
  2. "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.
  3. "Diary of a Wimpy Kid becomes a top book seller". BBC News. 23 November 2011. Retrieved 25 November 2012.
  4. "Next 'Wimpy Kid' Book to Get Six Million-Copy First Printing". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 25 November 2012.
  5. "Kinney, Selznick Nab Children's Choice Book Awards". School Library Journal. Retrieved 25 November 2012.
  6. "Multimedia Review: May 2012". School Library Journal. Retrieved 25 November 2012.
  7. "The 2012 Harvey Award Nominees". School Library Journal. Retrieved 25 November 2012.
  8. "Review: Cabin Fever". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 25 November 2012.
  9. "Review: Cabin Fever". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 25 November 2012.
  10. "DIARY OF A WIMPY KID GETS ANIMATED MOVIE". Red Carpet News TV. Retrieved 27 August 2013.
  11. Minzesheimer, Bob (2013-08-08). "Narrator hits 'Hard Luck' in eighth Wimpy Kid book". USA Today. Retrieved 27 August 2013.
  12. Petski, Denise (September 8, 2023). "'Diary Of A Wimpy Kid Christmas: Cabin Fever' Sets Release Date On Disney+". Deadline Hollywood.
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