Some of my favorite chapter books are the titles in the Daisy Dawson collection. These books are full of sweetly funny moments, charming characters, and just a little touch of magic. In today's fiction title, Daisy Dawson and her friends find out that sometimes we have to leave the home we love, so that we can come back to it.
Steve
Voake
Illustrated
by Jessica Meserve
Fiction
For
ages 7 to 9
Candlewick
Press, 2008, 978-0-7636-5627-0
One
morning Daisy’s mother tells Daisy that it is going to be a very cold day.
Apparently, Arctic winds are blowing and it might even snow. Sure enough, after
Daisy gets to school, and while she is cleaning out the gerbil cage, it starts
to snow outside. Daisy slips Furball and Burble, the two gerbils, into her
pocket and then she goes outside with her classmates.
Outdoors, Furball and Burble meet Daisy’s
squirrel friends, Hazel, Cyril, and Conker. The squirrels invite the gerbils to
go sliding with them, and soon the little gerbils are riding on Hazel and
Conker’s heads, holding the squirrel’s ears “as if they were motorcycle
handlebars.” After one ride down the hill, the gerbils – not being used to snow
and cold - are ready to go back indoors. They know when enough is enough.
Unfortunately the same cannot be said for
Woolverton, one of the new lambs. Instead of staying with the flock, which is
what his mother and the sheepdog tells him to do, Woolverton wanders off. Daisy
and Boom the hound dog set off to find the lamb, hoping that he hasn’t come to
harm in the woods.
Daisy Dawson, the little girl who can speak
to and understand animals, is a very special book character. She is sweet,
generous, and her animal friends are all very fond of her. With brilliant
touches of humor and delicious characters, Steve Voake gives his readers a
splendid story full of warmth and love.
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