Name Alexandra Day | Education Swarth College | |
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Books You're A Good Dog - Carl, Carl Pops Up, The Flight of a Dove, Carl's Baby Journal, A Bouquet | ||
Review alexandra day performs live at barrington coffee house 2009 02 20
Alexandra Day (born 1941) is an American children’s book author. Alexandra Day is a pseudonym; her real name is Sandra Louise Woodward Darling. She is the author of Good Dog, Carl, which tells the story of a Rottweiler named Carl who looks after a baby named Madeleine. The book was first published in 1985 by Day’s own publishing company, Green Tiger Press. Good Dog, Carl has been followed by a whole series of popular Carl books, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
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- Review alexandra day performs live at barrington coffee house 2009 02 20
- Mason gets an award for his poster and meets author alexandra day
- Carl Books
- References
Day was born in 1941 in Cincinnati, Ohio. She and her husband, Harold Darling, founded a publishing company, Green Tiger Press, in 1970. Meanwhile, Day began a career in illustration, and illustrated her first book in 1983: The Teddy Bears' Picnic, based on a popular children's song by Jimmy Kennedy.
Day and her husband live in Seattle, Washington.
Mason gets an award for his poster and meets author alexandra day
Carl Books
According to Day, the inspiration for Good Dog, Carl came from a trip to Zurich, Switzerland. Day was looking through antique picture sheets for her postcards when she found an image of a dog left to guard a baby. Day’s own dog, a Rottweiler named Toby, was the model for the book's main character, and since then other family Rottweiler’s have been models for the books.
Carl’s Christmas was a New York Times bestseller.