My Life in Smiley (Book 1 in Smiley series): It's All Good

Just finished this with my daughter, and she couldn't put it down! She loves the Wimpy Kid series, and My Life in Smiley is in a similar diary format. The book is set in a French middle school, too, which is pretty interesting. Highly recommend.

My son really enjoyed the book and asked for book 2 and book 3 for Christmas!

The kids love this book

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I love this book! Thank you Amazon for letting me read this book because I love it so much. You have made my week.

I love 💕 books 📚 written in diary form! I especially love 💕 books 📚 written in diary for that are illustrated! I love 💕 emojis 😃😍😋🤪😎! Unfortunately I didn’t love 💕this book 📖. Maybe I’m comparing it too much to others I’ve read like Dork Diaries but I found this book 📖 bordering on boring 💤.There’s a dire warning ⚠️ about not reading this book 📖 until 2126 with the threat of such cool 😎 stuff as hundreds of tarantulas 🕷 jumping out of massive black blisters on your hands 🤚. I read the warning ⚠️ page and got my hopes up but it turned out that this was the only page that really showed the kind of personality I’ve come to expect in diary format kid’s books 📚.It’s not like nothing happened. We follow Max, who’s 11, through his first year at middle school. Max lives in France 🇫🇷 with his parents and sisters Marion, who’s 14 and super annoying and Lisa, who’s 8 and the favourite child. He’s best friends with Tom, a skinny nerd 🤓. Together they play Zombieland 🧟‍♀️ 🧟‍♂️ on Xbox 🎮 and they have their own chicken 🐔 nugget eating record. Max has a crush on Naïs who is consistently described as pretty.At school there is assigned seating and of course Max has been assigned to sit next to his arch nemesis, Raoul. Max recounts gym dramas and other classes he attends. There’s a field trip to the retirement home, exchange students visit from England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 and there’s a field trip to the Eiffel Tower. There are also visits to Max’s grandparents, skiing ⛷ and parties 🎈to plan and attend. During the school year there is an ongoing mystery of who is responsible for the graffiti on the wall on the way to school and how the artist knows so much about Max.So, with all of this happening why wasn’t this a ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ book 📖? There wasn’t the humour I expected. The main character barely had a personality. There were cute illustrations and emoji overload, but I’m not desperately needing to read the second book 📖 in this series. Perhaps this one was just setting the groundwork for future incredible stories. Maybe some of the humour got lost in the translation.What it boiled down to for me was that this book 📖 was just okay 👌. I’m not jumping up and down excited 😆 about my new discovery but I also made it to the end so it didn’t completely suck either. I may relent and try the second book 📖 (maybe) but it won’t have the honour of going straight to the top of the TBR pile.Thank you very much to NetGalley and Andrews McMeel Publishing for the opportunity to read this book 📖.

This book has a list of checkmarks that the boys list as their best adventures. the first 4 are typical boy stuff... long distance peeing, reaching a level of your game on xbox, etc. However, the 5th one is spying on girls in the bathroom. What the hell? Why would we tell boys it's normal, acceptable, and an adventure to spy on girls in the bathroom?! Especially in this social climate? That's just asking for trouble.

This book was so good. If you have read diary of a wimpy kid you will love this book .If not that is ok you will still think this book is amazing