High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Dear Dumb Diary is a series of children`s books by Jim Benton, creator of It`s Happy Bunny. The Dear Dumb Diary books are written in the first person by a middle school girl named Jamie Kelly. The series is published by Scholastic in English and Random House in Korean. The first book in the series, "Let`s Pretend this Never Happened",was published in 2004.