Children's Book Author Visits Cathedral School

I've seen the "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" series in Scholastic catalogues. Neat that students from other diocesan schools were invited!

Cathedral Grade School eighth-grader Thomas Fields may have what it takes to be a writer and a great cartoonist, according to a well-known writer and great cartoonist.

"Cartooning is a craft and not many people can do it," said Jeff Kinney, author of the "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" children's book series. "So I have a lot of admiration for what Thomas did."

Thomas, of Belleville, won the Diary of a Wimpy Kid Do-It-Yourself Comic Contest, an international competition that required kids to create their own comics. Noting it's "professional grade," Kinney said Thomas' entry was the best of the more than 4,000 submitted from around the world.

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More than 100 students from Cathedral, St. Mary-St. Augustine Catholic Grade School and St. Teresa School gathered in Cathedral's gymnasium to hear Kinney speak about how his career as a cartoonist and how the Wimpy Kid series came to be.

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And St. Teresa's gets a Cardinal to visit. Catholic schools visible in the community.