Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day Themes
Isolation
One of the hardest things about hard-to-deal-with feelings is that fact that they make you feel so stinkin' alone. Misery may love company, but who wants to go to that party?For a young child, the...
Youth
Kind of obvious, right? Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day is a children's book; of course youth is a theme. But every author who writes about children also has their own p...
Dissatisfaction and Injustice
What can we say? Alexander does not like his life at this point. Things that he might normally enjoy—like sweet, sweet cereal—are rendered terrible by his mood. And in Alexander and the Terribl...