A review by panda_incognito
Alexander, Who's Trying His Best to Be the Best Boy Ever by Judith Viorst

3.0

The stream-of-consciousness prose is as fun as ever, and the drawings are charming, but since the ultimate point of the story is that it's useless to try to be good, I would not recommend this to children unless their parents wanted to use it as a discussion point about how to balance goodness with an understanding of human failure. For someone who is reminiscing about their own childhood, this book is delightful, but if you're still a kid, this reads as justification for being as naughty as you like.