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Judith Viorst

Born

in Newark, New Jersey, The United States

February 02, 1931

Genre

Children's Books, Health, Mind & Body, Parenting & Families

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Judith Viorst is an American writer, newspaper journalist, and psychoanalysis researcher. She is known for her humorous observational poetry and for her children's literature. This includes The Tenth Good Thing About Barney (about the death of a pet) and the Alexander series of short picture books, which includes Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (1972), which has sold over two million copies.
Viorst is a 1952 graduate of the Newark College of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey. In 1968, she signed the "Writers and Editors War Tax Protest" pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War. In the latter part of the 1970s, after two decades of writing for children and ...more

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Judith Viorst’s books

Average rating: 4.21 · 219,449 ratings · 7,124 reviews · 118 distinct works • Similar authors

	Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst, Ray Cruz (Illustrator) 4.24 avg rating — 187,544 ratings — published 1972 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday 4.13 avg rating — 7,200 ratings — published 1978 — 50 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lulu and the Brontosaurus (The Lulu Series) by Judith Viorst, Lane Smith (Illustrator) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4,505 ratings — published 2010 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Necessary Losses: The Loves, Illusions, Dependencies, and Impossible Expectations That All of Us Have to Give Up in Order to Grow 4.07 avg rating — 4,020 ratings — published 1986 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Alexander, Who's Not (Do You Hear Me? I Mean It!) Going to Move by Judith Viorst, Ray Cruz, Robin Preiss Glasser (Illustrator) 4.05 avg rating — 2,272 ratings — published 1995 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lulu Walks the Dogs by Judith Viorst, Lane Smith (Illustrator) 4.01 avg rating — 1,817 ratings — published 2012 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Tenth Good Thing About Barney by Judith Viorst, Erik Blegvad (Illustrator) 4.28 avg rating — 1,452 ratings — published 1971 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lulu's Mysterious Mission (Lulu, #3) by Judith Viorst, Kevin Cornell (Illustrator) 3.95 avg rating — 1,025 ratings — published 2014 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	If I Were in Charge of the World and Other Worries by Judith Viorst, Lynne Cherry (Illustrator) 4.11 avg rating — 701 ratings — published 1981 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Making the Best of What's Left: When We're Too Old to Get the Chairs Reupholstered 4.04 avg rating — 585 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Judith Viorst

Alexander (4 books)
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Isidre Monés (Illustrator)

4.23 avg rating — 197,599 ratings

Lulu (4 books)
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Kevin Cornell (Illustrator)

3.99 avg rating — 7,698 ratings

The Decades of a Woman's Life (7 books)
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Judith Viorst

3.85 avg rating — 2,089 ratings

Quotes by Judith Viorst (?)

“Strength is the capacity to break a Hershey bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.”
― Judith Viorst, Love and Guilt and the Meaning of Life, Etc.

tags: chocolate, strength

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“I think I'll move to Australia.”
― Judith Viorst, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

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“I went to sleep with gum in my mouth and now there's gum in my hair and when I got out of bed this morning I tripped on the skateboard and by mistake I dropped my sweater in the sink while the water was running and I could tell it was going to be a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.”
― Judith Viorst, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

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What Book Shall We Read in November?

I have chosen books that are getting a lot of attention and were published in September and October. Please let me know if you think a book should be added to the list.

If you get the chance, check and see what your library has before you vote.

The Kneebone Boy by Ellen Potter

10 votes 37.0%

Storyteller by Patricia Reilly Giff

4 votes 14.8%

The Clockwork Three by Matthew J. Kirby

4 votes 14.8%

The Day of the Pelican by Katherine Paterson

2 votes 7.4%

Lulu and the Brontosaurus by Judith Viorst

2 votes 7.4%

What Happened on Fox Street by Tricia Springstubb

2 votes 7.4%