JUDITH VIORST - Storytime With The Classic ALEXANDER'S ...DAY!

06/05/2010 10:00 am

Judith Viorst - At Quail Ridge BooksJudith Viorst, famed author and lecturer, shares a special storytime (co-sponsored by Lucy's Book Club) featuring her classic picture book, ALEXANDER AND THE TERRIBLE, HORRIBLE, NO GOOD, VERY BAD DAY.

SIGNING LINE TICKET EVENT - receive a ticket with the purchase of any of the eight Bookmarked! selections listed below.   Click here for more details on the Bookmarked! Festival and the Lucy Daniels Center.

Judith Viorst is the inaugural author for Bookmarked!, a festival made up of several events, sponsored by the Lucy Daniels Center and its Lucy's Book Club.

Only the eight Bookmarked! selections may be ordered for signing.  If ordering from our website, please indicate in our Order Comments box:

  • The title of the book and to whom it should be personalized (ex. ALEXANDER - To Sarah)

  • If you need the book for the Quail Ridge Books Storytime (on Saturday, June 5, at 10 a.m.) or for the fundraiser event (on Sunday, June 6, in the evening at Peace College).  

We do request you prepay for any books to be personalized. 

Can’t make it? To request a signed or personalized copy, call 828-1588 or 1-800-672-6789 or contact orders@quailridgebooks.com (at least 48 hours in advance for email) to check availability.

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (Hardcover)

By Judith Viorst, Ray Cruz
$17.99
ISBN-13: 9781416985952
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 9/2009
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Alexander knew it was going to be a terrible day when he woke up with gum in this hair.

And it got worse...

His best friend deserted him. There was no dessert in his lunch bag. And, on top of all that, there were lima beans for dinner and kissing on TV!

I'll Fix Anthony (Paperback)

By Judith Viorst, Arnold Lobel
$5.99
ISBN-13: 9780689712029
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 4/1988
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Mother says deep down in his heart. Anthony loves me. Anthony says deep down in his heart he thinks I stink.

Anthony's younger brother puts up with a lot. Every time he wants to play with Anthony and his friends, or even go into the playroom, Anthony starts to clobber him. There's nothing he can do now...but just wait until he's six!

Judith Viorst's fine, funny story, now available in a handsome new edition, will charm readers of all ages.

Nobody Here but Me (Hardcover)

By Judith Viorst, Christine Davenier
$16.95
ISBN-13: 9780374355401
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR), 9/2008

It’s a little after four o’clock, and everyone’s busy. Mom’s on the phone, Dad’s checking e-mail, and Katie’s playing games with a friend. But there’s one other person in the house, and no matter what he does – from painting a blue heart on the wall to turning the kitchen into a catastrophe (that’s a really big mess) – none of his distracted family members come to stop him. What does a person have to do to get noticed around here?

This laugh-out-loud story by best-selling author Judith Viorst, accompanied by Christine Davenier’s charming illustrations, perfectly captures how lonely it can feel even when the house is full of people – and just what it takes to get some attention.

If I Were in Charge of the World and Other Worries: Poems for Children and Their Parents (Hardcover)

By Judith Viorst, Lynne Cherry
$18.99
ISBN-13: 9780689308635
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Published: Atheneum, 8/1981
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If I were in charge of the world, I'd cancel oatmeal, Monday mornings, allergy shots, and also Sara Steinberg. All of us have times when we wish that we were in charge of the world...when we envy girls with ten best friends and gold watches...when we take an eight-block detour to avoid bumping into bullies like Stanley the Fierce...when we question whether princes and princesses really do live happily ever after...when we wonder how grownups ever get to be grown up enough to stop being scared of the dark. This book of poems is for everyone who has ever had trouble apologizing, or loved a cat, or talked too much, or burped. This book of poems is for everyone who could use a little help in turning some of their worries into laughter.

Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Expectations That All of us Have (Paperback)

By Judith Viorst
$16.00
ISBN-13: 9780684844954
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Free Press, 1/1998
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In NECESSARY LOSSES, Judith Viorst turns her considerable talents to a serious and far-reaching subject: how we grow and change through the losses that are an inevitable and necessary part of life. She argues persuasively that through the loss of our mothers' protection, the loss of the impossible expectations we bring to relationships, the loss of our younger selves, and the loss of our loved ones through separation and death, we gain deeper perspective, true maturity, and fuller wisdom about life. She has written a book that is both life affirming and life changing.

Forever Fifty (Hardcover)

By Judith Viorst
$17.00
ISBN-13: 9780684832371
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Simon & Schuster, 9/1996
Judith Viorst's poetry collections, which include WHEN DID I STOP BEING TWENTY..., II'S HARD TO BE HIP OVER THIRTY..., and HOW DID I GET TO BE FORTY?.., have articulated our growing pains from single life to midlife, and have continued to delight millions of readers worldwide. Writing with the warmth and authenticity that have become her trademarks, Viorst once again demonstrates her uncanny ability to transform our daily realities into poems that make us laugh with recognition. Whether her subject is the decline of the body ("It's hard to be devil-may-care/When there are pleats in your derrière") or future aspirations ("Before I go, I'd like to have high cheekbones./I'd like to talk less like New Jersey, and more like Claire Bloom"), she always speaks directly to our condition. Her funny, compassionate poems shed a reassuring light on the fine art of aging, and will delight anyone who is now (or forever) fifty.

Suddenly Sixty And Other Shocks Of Later Life (Hardcover)

By Judith Viorst
$17.00
ISBN-13: 9780684867632
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Simon & Schuster, 10/2000
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Among the poems in this charmingly illustrated collection are those exploring the joys -- and strains -- of children and grandchildren, and the intimacy of old friends who've "known each other so long/We knew each other back when we were virgins." There are poems that tip their hat to mortality, wrestle with a husband's retirement -- "He's coming with me when I shop at the supermarket/So I won't have to shop alone. I like alone." -- and acknowledge the fact that at this stage of life we'd "give up a night of wild rapture with Denzel Washington for a nice report on my next bone density test."

I'm Too Young To Be Seventy: And Other Delusions (Hardcover)

By Judith Viorst
$17.00
ISBN-13: 9780743267748
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Free Press, 10/2005
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The beloved bestselling author of FOREVER FIFTY and SUDDENLY SIXTY now tackles the ins and outs of becoming a septuagenarian with her usual wry good humor.
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