Since it's a new year, I thought I'd start a new book challenge thread.

Here's how it works.

1. Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, by Judith Viorst

My 4-year-old niece handed this to me, climbed into my lap, and asked me to read it. Alexander wakes up having a bad day, and it just gets worse from there, until he wants to move to Australia. Some days are like that ... even in Australia.


"Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad."
"How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here.”

- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland