Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

　　整天倒楣事不斷的亞歷山大，該如何逆轉他的衰運？從口香糖粘到頭髮開始，他就有預感會一路不幸下去：最好的朋友拋棄了他、午餐盒裡沒有附甜點，晚餐出現了討厭的扁豆，更煩的是電視上在播接吻畫面！這些討厭的事全部都在一天內發生，真是倒楣到家、衰神上門了！讓他不得不認真考慮是否要搬到澳洲去避難一下，他能做些什麼來轉換這些不愉快？



　　Judith Viorst這本充滿幽默又富現實感的故事，充分表現孩子在面對一連串不順利時的心理變化，讓讀者以輕鬆的方式看待、理解他的心境，對照在自己遇到不順利的一天時，能夠學會幽默面對。【文∕博客來外文館】

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From children’s book legend Judith Viorst comes the perennially popular tale of Alexander’s worst day. Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day is a story that belongs on every child’s bookshelf.

Alexander could tell it was going to be a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. He went to sleep with gum in his mouth and woke up with gum in his hair. When he got out of bed, he tripped over his skateboard and by mistake dropped his sweater in the sink while the water was running. He could tell it was going to be a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.

It was a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. Nothing at all was right. Everything went wrong, right down to lima beans for supper and kissing on TV.

What do you do on a day like that? Well, you may think about going to Australia. You may also be glad to find that some days are like that for other people too.

作者簡介

　　Judith Viorst says that she has been writing always -- "or at least since I was seven or eight, when I composed an ode to my dead parents, both of whom were alive and well and, when they read my poem, extremely annoyed." She has written many books for children, including the acclaimed Alexander and the Terrible Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, If I Were in Charge of the World...and Other Worries, and I'll Fix Anthony as well as several books of poetry and prose for adults. She is also a contributing editor to Redbook magazine. Mrs. Viorst lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband, Milton, a political writer. They have three sons -- Anthony, Nicholas, and Alexander.