Rachel Renée Russell and Nikki Russell open up about theinspiration behind Dork Diaries—the international blockbuster series with over 55 million copies sold worldwide—how their stories have empowered kids facing bullying, and why they’re bringing Nikki Maxwell’s adventures to life in vibrant full color for a new generation of readers.

Rachel Renée Russell is the #1 New York Timesbestselling author of Dork Diaries, an international blockbuster series chronicling the life and misadventures ofmiddle school students, Nikki Maxwell and her best friends Chloe and Zoey. With humor and wit, Rachel’s books encourage tweens to embrace their individuality and always let their inner dork shine through. The Dork Diaries serieshas been translated into fifty-two languages worldwide and its characters are as diverse as the millions of tweens who read the books.

With more than fifty-five million books in print, the serieshas 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.

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.

Her daughter, Nikki Russell, is the illustrator for both book series. The mother-daughter team has released twenty-oneconsecutive New York Times bestsellers.

At time 31:00 Nikki reads from Dork Diaries 1 Full-ColorEdition: Tales from a Not-So-Fabulous Life.

Author link: https://dorkdiaries.com/

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