![]() ![]() The mother-daughter team has released nineteen consecutive New York Times bestsellers. Her daughter, Nikki Russell, is the illustrator for both book series. Rachel is also the author of a second New York Times bestselling series, The Misadventures of Max Crumbly, which received a Kids’ Book Choice Award. With more than fifty-five million books in print, the series has garnered such honors as two Kids’ Book Choice Awards, an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work for Children, the Milner Award for Children’s Literature, and a Nickelodeon Kid’s Choice Book of the Year nomination. The Dork Diaries series has been translated into forty-two languages worldwide and its characters are as diverse as the millions of tweens who read the books. ![]() With humor and wit, Rachel’s books encourage tweens to embrace their individuality and always let their inner dork shine through. Rachel Renée Russell is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dork Diaries, an international blockbuster series chronicling the life and misadventures of middle school students, Nikki Maxwell and her best friends Chloe and Zoey. Sorry! But if I dramatically dashed out of the royal ball at midnight in a glamorous, enchanted gown and lost my beautiful glass slipper, I’d step right in a pile of DOG POOP! Hey, I’d LOVE to be the pretty and popular PARTY PRINCESS. That scary dream has me worried that if even the TINIEST thing goes wrong, my birthday could turn into a complete DISASTER. Unfortunately, Chloe and Zoey are going to be SUPERdisappointed when I break the bad news that I’ve changed my mind. They’re so excited about it that they’re coming over tomorrow to help me plan everything. I’m VERY serious! They practically scare the SNOT out of me.Īnyway, my birthday is on Saturday, June 28, and my BFFs, Chloe and Zoey, are BEGGING me to throw a big birthday party. Just SCREAMING CLOWNS with their BUTTS on FIRE! To this day, I have an extreme FEAR of clowns. But I was SO upset, I couldn’t eat any of my birthday cake. Then he quickly put it out by SITTING in a huge bowl of fruit punch!…Īll the kids laughed and cheered because they thought it was all part of his very funny clown act. Until he was lighting the candles on my birthday cake and somehow accidentally set the seat of his baggy clown pants on fire.Īt first Dad panicked and ran around the room shouting, “FIRE! FIRE!” I had invited my ENTIRE kindergarten class to my party, and my dad dressed up as a clown. I think I first contracted this illness on my fifth birthday. It’s an irrational fear of birthday party disasters. I’m obviously suffering from a very serious and debilitating medical condition called CBPP, or CRUDDY BIRTHDAY PARTY PHOBIA. OMG! That dream felt SO real! I woke up FRANTIC in a cold sweat.Īnd now just the thought of having a party is totally FREAKING ME OUT. My wonderful birthday party had turned into a complete CATASTROPHE! It was AWFUL! Thank goodness the entire thing was just a… The BAD NEWS is that I was totally WRONG about the GOOD NEWS !… The GOOD NEWS is that not even my mortal FRENEMY, MacKenzie Hollister, can RUIN the most AMAZING day of my entire life ! OUCH!! That hurt! (I just pinched myself!) Just imagine a FABULOUS and FUN bash at the Westchester Country Club with a band, DJ, all-you-can-eat pizza, ice-cream sundae bar, two hundred of my closest friends, my loyal BFFs, my adorkable CRUSH, and a humongous birthday cake.Įverything is SO unbelievably PERFECT, I need to pinch myself to make sure I’m not dreaming. It has been delayed multiple times since then and currently doesn’t have a set release date.OMG! MY BIRTHDAY PARTY IS BEYOND AWESOME! Her new book, Tales from a Not-So-Posh Paris Adventure, was scheduled to be released on Octobut was delayed due to the Coronavirus pandemic. He is introduced in Dork Diaries: Tales From A Not-So Perfect Pet Sitter.Īs of August 2020, 55 million copies of Dork Diaries are in print worldwide in 42 languages. The Misadventures of Max Crumbly is about a character, Maxwell Crumbly, who keeps a diary about his challenges in middle school. The main character, Nikki Maxwell, is named after her daughter. Her daughter, Nikki, is the illustrator of the series. The series is based on Russell's middle school experiences. ![]() As of 2013, she lives in Chantilly, Virginia.ĭork Diaries, written in a diary format, uses doodles, drawings, and comic strips to chronicle the daily life of the main character, Nikki Maxwell, as she struggles to fit in and survive middle school. She attended Northwestern University, then law school. Russell grew up in Saint Joseph, Michigan, and has four younger siblings, two sisters and twin brothers. Rachel Renée Russell (born March 13, 1959) is an American author of the children's book series Dork Diaries and its spin-off The Misadventures of Max Crumbly. ![]()
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