Miss Penelope Dork Diaries ((top)) -

In the Dork Diaries series, is the sassy, high-pitched "alter ego" and talking hand puppet of Nikki Maxwell’s mischievous younger sister, Brianna Maxwell . Though literally just a face drawn on Brianna’s hand with a pen, Miss Penelope is treated as a fully sentient—and often troublemaking—character within the Maxwell household. Character Profile & Origins

“Also,” she added, “I wrote that you’re the first nanny who didn’t cry. And that you smell like coffee and bad decisions. That’s a compliment.”

Ah. There it was. The real story.

In the chaotic, emoji-filled, drama-laced world of Nikki J. Maxwell, one character manages to steal the scene without ever speaking a word, moving on her own, or technically being alive. She is small, she is fuzzy, and she is undoubtedly the sassiest piece of plush in the literary world.

I didn’t say “of course I won’t leave.” That’s a lie nannies can’t afford to tell. Instead, I said, “Then write that. Write the scary part. That’s the only rule. The truth.” miss penelope dork diaries

“I’d write that I’m scared,” she whispered. “Of being alone. Mom and Dad are always gone. The nannies always leave. You’ll leave too, Miss Fart Cloud.”

“I’m not writing in that old thing,” she said, kicking a stuffed bunny across the floor. “It’s boomer cringe.” In the Dork Diaries series, is the sassy,

Sprog is not a pet. Sprog is their seven-year-old daughter, Penelope (yes, same name—a coincidence that feels like a curse). But she is not a Penelope. She is a chaos demon in glittery sneakers.

I sat down on the floor next to her. The headphones came off. This was not a noise-canceling situation. This was a sit-in-the-mud situation. And that you smell like coffee and bad decisions

Miss Penelope serves as Brianna’s "partner in crime" and frequently acts as a scapegoat for Brianna’s misbehavior. If a mess is made or a rule is broken, Brianna often insists that it was Miss Penelope’s doing.

She handed me a folded piece of paper. It was a single page torn from the pink diary. On it, in purple gel pen, she had drawn two stick figures. One small, with mismatched eyes. One tall, with a coffee cup and noise-canceling headphones. Underneath, she had written: