“I mean, I am not your merry little lady bouncing chucklingly through life. “Practically every everything that I’ve written that is funny or joyful, I’ve probably lived through first with tears - and crying and bitching and moaning and carrying on,” she says. These days he is apparently quite happy about the whole thing. At first he wasn’t happy about this and asked if someone else could have the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, but when his mother reminded him that he’d get his name in big letters on the cover, he agreed to be the star. She decided to write the book about Alex because he seemed to have more than his fair share of bad days at the time. Writer, journalist and psychoanalyst Judith Vorst wrote her Alexander books modelled on her own three sons, who were about that age when she wrote them. Alexander, Who’s Trying His Best to Be the Best Boy Ever.Alexander, Who Is Not (Do You Hear Me? I Mean It!) Going to Move.
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