Judith Viorst on NPR for ALEXANDER’s 50th Anniversary
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day turns 50(!) this year, and author Judith Viorst was on NPR’s All Things Considered to talk about how she created the story and why it continues to resonate after all these years.
(Thanks to Austin Kleon for the link)
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Travis Jonker is an elementary school librarian in Michigan. He writes reviews (and the occasional article or two) for School Library Journal and is a member of the 2014 Caldecott committee. You can email Travis at scopenotes@gmail.com, or follow him on Twitter: @100scopenotes.
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