Bread and Jam for Frances. Now that's a book I haven't seen since I was in kindergarten. Can't really remember much about the book at all aside from the obvious.

Reading "Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day" again, on an unrelated note, makes me think it has something to do with a lot of kids becoming nihilistic, what with its whole "life sucks and is unfair" vibe. (Though I do love how Alexander tried to pawn off a blank piece of paper as a drawing of an "invisible castle." Have to love a smartass.)