Alexandra Day is the author and illustrator of Good Dog, Carl, and the Carl Series. However, a fun fact, Alexandra Day is a pseudonym. The author’s real name is Sandra Louise Woodward Darling.
Sandra is originally from Cincinnati, Ohio, where she was born in 1941. She started painting at a young age and loved to read. Sandra also loved animals and was a dog owner.
In 1983, she illustrated her first book called The Teddy Bears’ Picnic, written by Jimmy Kennedy. Soon after, she was traveling in Switzerland and found a volume of old German picture sheets. One of them had a poodle playing with a baby who was supposed to be napping. It was this image that became Sandra’s inspiration for Good Dog, Carl.