Daisy and the Trouble with Christmas

Daisy Fiction

by Kes Gray, Nick Sharratt (Illustrator), Garry Parsons (Illustrator)

Christmas: a time of peace, when all is calm? Not if you're Daisy, who has been extremely excited about Christmas since September. And when Daisy is excited, trouble will surely follow! Daisy loves the carols, the sparkly lights, the snowmen, and especially the chance to be in the school Christmas play. But, as ever with Daisy, things don't go quite according to plan and when the Baby Jesus dolly's head wobbles and falls off, total Christmas chaos ensues.

Genres: Childrens, Christmas, Fiction

160 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2009

About the author

Kes Gray is a bestselling, multi award-winning author of more than 70 books for children. He eats Ideaflakes for breakfast, spreads silliness on his toast and lives in a place called Different. Kes was the second bestselling picture book author in 2018.

Reviews

[Miranda Saville · Rating 5 out of 5]

My 6 year old was totally inspired to read independently and described it as 'super cool'. She felt really grown up reading a book with chapters although there re plenty of pictures to keep them going - I was impressed!

[Avi B · Rating 4 out of 5]

My 6 year old and I read part of this together, then she went on to read it independently. The story kept her interest and made her laugh and was her first book that had less pictures and more like 'a grown up book' for her. She enjoyed this a lot. She wants to read more of this series in the future.

[Isobel Burchell · Rating 4 out of 5]

I like the notes Daisy writes to Santa. And I liked all the dolly’s that the class brought in. I didn’t really like the bit when Daisy’s mum kept singing Christmas carols. She kept singing and it was just annoying.

[Claire Coverley · Rating 4 out of 5]

My daughter's first 'proper' book. Perfectly pitched to be challenging in both vocabulary and plot, whilst being readable and accessible. We both really enjoyed it.

[Rupert Matthews · Rating 5 out of 5]

Yes, I admit it. I read this book on the recommendation of my daughter. Actually it was quite funny and highly amusing. Anyone with young children really should read this book. A festive treat.

[Skyler Pritchard · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really loved the school play. I think this is the best daisy book I've read because I love Christmas so much.

[Sienna · Rating 5 out of 5]

It was so good! Amazing! Fantastic!
You have got to read it :)

[Eleanor Wright · Rating 5 out of 5]

Best book in the world! It is very funny!

[Zoë · Rating 5 out of 5]

It was a amazing book i would say my fav

[Cindy]

I love this book. Especially my child. She thought it was really funny.

[Lady Foxreader · Rating 4 out of 5]

Sooo cuteee.

[C. M. · Rating 5 out of 5]

The trouble with starting long book series with your small children is that the children grow out of the books but you don't, so apparently I'm going to be reading these straight through middle age.

(Although actually, my giant hulking children have a soft spot for certain series, including this one, that leads to bouts of affectionate re-reading, ESPECIALLY at Christmas.)

Highly, highly recommend to anyone reading to children (or reading bits out loud to their spouse in the evenings, ahem). I bet this would be a fun classroom read.

[Alyce Hunt · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ezra wants to give this “a thousand, million, hundred” stars, but I decided to go with three.

The illustrations are great, as are the activities in the back, but I think it would be great to see Daisy either receiving some kind of repercussions for her actions or redeeming herself to teach kids that naughtiness is not okay! This is only my first experience with the Daisy series though, so I’ll see how I feel if we read more in the future.

[Vonprice · Rating 5 out of 5]

Perfect Christmas time story for children aged 6+ who are beginning to read independently.
My full review is here: https://vsviewfromthebookshelves.home...

[Jemma Sawyer-Todd · Rating 5 out of 5]

My favourite book and I'm way too old for it.

[Layla · Rating 5 out of 5]

I liked it because it was really funny. I liked it when she tripped over the batteries which made everyone else fall over

[Jemma · Rating 3 out of 5]

First book of 2023 finished. One of a fun series of Daisy and the Trouble with...

[mike · Rating 3 out of 5]

Three no trouble with Christmas