This book is part of a book series called Alexander .

This book has been graded for interest at 5-8 years.

There are 96 pages in this book. This book was published 1997 by Simon & Schuster .

Robin Preiss Glasser, who habitually sports glasses and jeans, discovered her "inner Nancy" while illustrating this book. "Wearing lace-trimmed socks helps me draw better," she says. She has illustrated many books and lives in Southern California with her family and tiara collection. Judith Viorst is the author of Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day , among other books for children and adults. She is also a newspaper columnist who frequently writes for The New York Times and the Washington Post . She lives in Washington, D. C. Ray Cruz is the illustrator of the modern classics Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day and Alexander , Who Used To Be Rich Last Sunday .