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Darcy Burdock #4
Oh, Obviously
Ten-year-old Darcy Burdock is one of life's noticers. She sees the extraordinary in the everyday, and the wonder in the world around her.
This is Darcy's fourth story, and the Burdock family are facing a series of disasters. Mum and Dad are having serious money worries. Darcy's granny (the one she doesn't like as much as her main most important grandma) has come to stay, and is snapping at everyone. Pork the cat's real owner has turned up, and wants to take him away. And to top it all off, Darcy is dreading her school sleepover - especially as she's the owner of the world's most ugly, stupid, babyish pyjamas.
Can the power of Darcy's colourful, wild, glittering imagination turn all her troubles around?
- GenresMiddle Grade
320 pages, Kindle Edition
First published June 4, 2015
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February 14, 2021
It is really good I really love it!
#writer’s bump
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June 22, 2015
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I was so happy when Darcy’s fourth adventure popped through my letterbox that I read it that very afternoon. And I loved Oh, Obviously.
Darcy’s drama of the moment is the impending school sleepover turned talent contest for charity. And the worst thing? She has no suitable pyjamas! Hers are all covered in crazy patterns and slogans and they’re just so loud. Darcy has a bit of a crisis about how bright and clashing her wardrobe comes across to others: to her there’s nothing better than clashing her favourite colours and the best patterns and wearing her personality on her body, but she’s beginning to have her doubts. There must be so many girls her age that get their personality knocked out of them by fears like this – I’m so glad that Darcy is surrounded by people who love her and are just as mad.
I love how Laura Dockrill manages to instil important messages about being yourself and inner strength and dealing with death and grief with such aplomb. It’s subtle and worked into Darcy’s own realisations effortlessly. Everyone could learn a lesson or two from Darcy Burdock. Even though she has a few moments when the Angrosaurus rears its head, she channels her feelings and the events in her daily life into wonderful stories are weaved into the narrative. I wish I thought like her!
I could read about Darcy and her stories for ever and never get bored. Bring on book five!
I was so happy when Darcy’s fourth adventure popped through my letterbox that I read it that very afternoon. And I loved Oh, Obviously.
Darcy’s drama of the moment is the impending school sleepover turned talent contest for charity. And the worst thing? She has no suitable pyjamas! Hers are all covered in crazy patterns and slogans and they’re just so loud. Darcy has a bit of a crisis about how bright and clashing her wardrobe comes across to others: to her there’s nothing better than clashing her favourite colours and the best patterns and wearing her personality on her body, but she’s beginning to have her doubts. There must be so many girls her age that get their personality knocked out of them by fears like this – I’m so glad that Darcy is surrounded by people who love her and are just as mad.
I love how Laura Dockrill manages to instil important messages about being yourself and inner strength and dealing with death and grief with such aplomb. It’s subtle and worked into Darcy’s own realisations effortlessly. Everyone could learn a lesson or two from Darcy Burdock. Even though she has a few moments when the Angrosaurus rears its head, she channels her feelings and the events in her daily life into wonderful stories are weaved into the narrative. I wish I thought like her!
I could read about Darcy and her stories for ever and never get bored. Bring on book five!
August 16, 2016
I love Darcy and her fabulous ways and couldn't wait to get my hands on this book.
What I love about a Darcy book is that while they are really funny and Darcy and her quirks are entertaining there is a real heart to the book and the story it has to tell.
This book looks at issues in a thoughtful and poignant way. Firstly it looks at loss through the dead of a grandparent and how that can make to reflect about the role they played and are no longer playing in your life. Secondly the story covers the issue of what makes a family. Darcy's mother was adopted as a child and the observations Darcy makes about her grandmother (despite not liking her all that much) and how she took her mother in are really heartfelt. The story also looks at the family as they are going through some financial difficulties. This is increasingly the reality for so many families in the UK and isn't always acknowledged even though they have food and a roof over their head the impact it can have on the children of the family when classmates are showing off the expensive things their families can afford to give to them in a consumer driven society.
Just as brilliant as I thought it would be and highly recommended.
What I love about a Darcy book is that while they are really funny and Darcy and her quirks are entertaining there is a real heart to the book and the story it has to tell.
This book looks at issues in a thoughtful and poignant way. Firstly it looks at loss through the dead of a grandparent and how that can make to reflect about the role they played and are no longer playing in your life. Secondly the story covers the issue of what makes a family. Darcy's mother was adopted as a child and the observations Darcy makes about her grandmother (despite not liking her all that much) and how she took her mother in are really heartfelt. The story also looks at the family as they are going through some financial difficulties. This is increasingly the reality for so many families in the UK and isn't always acknowledged even though they have food and a roof over their head the impact it can have on the children of the family when classmates are showing off the expensive things their families can afford to give to them in a consumer driven society.
Just as brilliant as I thought it would be and highly recommended.
November 10, 2020
Ova knjiga ima veliku pouku! Stvarno mi se jako svidjela i stvarno ju volim! Volim Dracy Burdock u sva 4 djela koja sam pročitala! Stvarno vam preporučujem ovu knjigu, ali prvo morate pročitati njezina prva 3 djela, i nemojte ništa preskakati!!😘📚
October 25, 2017
Agatha is essentially Sherlock Holmes and I love it.
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