On Saturday, September 23rd at 2:00pm Warwick's, in partnership with The La Jolla Historical Society, will host Alexandra Day for a special meet-and-greet signing. Sandra Woodward Darling, the creator of the popular "Good Dog Carl" series, is better known by her nom de plume: Alexandra Day. When Green Tiger Press first took shape more than 50 years ago, Darling was a Swarthmore College graduate with a degree in English literature transplanted to the West Coast and working with Harold Darling as a designer, artist and illustrator on projects associated with the Unicorn cinema and Mithras bookstore, both innovative cultural pursuits in La Jolla, CA. The publishing company, located in a downtown San Diego warehouse, first dealt mainly in the reproduction of vintage childrens’ illustrations and then turned to publishing contemporary artists, Sandra among them, writing and illustrating under the pen name of Alexandra Day. Her first book, The Teddy Bear’s Picnic, in 1983 won a prize at Italy’s coveted Bologna Book Fair. She became one of Green Tiger’s regular illustrators, known especially for her Good Dog, Carl series concerning a lovable Rottweiller with a run of adventures. After Harold’s death in 2016, Sandra continued her leadership role in the independent publishing company which had moved to Seattle in 1993. Her heart, however, remains in artistic pursuits: “I have no trouble at all in believing that dogs can read, stuffed animals come alive or a bear and elephant run a business. I know that marvels exist which are just outside our ordinary experience, but that at any moment we may turn a corner and encounter one of them.”