![]() "It's a good model of how it can be ok to sit with your emotions and that you don't always need to fix things and that having a bad day is just part of life," says Sykes.Īfter 50 years of "crappy days," the real Alexander says, "I'm gonna keep rooting for him." / Simon & Schuster ![]() Sykes says one of the reasons Viorst's book is such a good resource for discussion is that there's no judgment of Alexander's behavior. ![]() Yes, they teach ethics and philosophy to second graders. She said to him: "'But of course your name won't be in great big letters on the front of the book.' At that point he decided to keep it Alexander," she says.Īt the Kent Place School in Summit, N.J., a group of second graders read and discuss Alexander with Ariel Sykes, assistant director of the school's Ethics Institute. Viorst did what she calls a "totally manipulative mommy thing" and proposed changing the name of the kid in the title. He said 'Why are you giving me this bad day? Why don't you give it Nick? Why didn't you give it to Tony? Why me?'," Viorst recalls. She wrote the book about Alexander thinking it would cheer him up. One was about sibling rivalry called I'll Fix Anthony. Courtesy of Judith Viorstīy 1972, Viorst had already written a couple of children's books. "He didn't think it was at all amusing," she recalls. ![]() In 1972, Judith Viorst wrote Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day thinking it would cheer up her son Alexander. ![]()
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