Daisy and the Trouble with Maggots (6)

Daisy Fiction

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

Go crazy for the one and only Daisy!
 
Daisy is incredibly excited when her uncle offers to take her on a fishing trip. There's so much new stuff to learn, such as how water witches turn fishermen into dog poop, why supermarkets don't stock "picnic-y" things like lemonade and chicken wings on the same shelf, and why it's a really, really bad idea to use wriggly tiggly maggots as catapult ammunition.

Genres: Fiction

160 pages, Paperback

Published November 1, 2010

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

[Skyler Pritchard]

My favourite bit was when Daisy hit jack and harry with the maggots. It was really funny 🤣

[Genevieve]

Trying not to be too critical but I didn't enjoy this. The first few chapters were a bit too repetitive and the way the prose was written was slightly irritating. A lot of "The trouble is..." etc etc.

But in general, this is a great series for younger readers. Maybe not this book in particular (I'm not exactly a big fan of fishing) but another one might suit!

[Tania]

This is a popular choice amongst kids... Let me have a go

[Kath]

More hijinks with Daisy, this time when she goes to the zoo for a birthday trip and gets to feed the penguins as a special surprise. I do like the 'trouble with' premise, and this book also delights readers with a tricksy outcome from Daisy's birthday surprise which was brilliant and worth the wait. But my goodness, I do feel for Daisy's poor Mum!

[Vonprice]

Yet another hilarious adventure with mischievous Daisy. Great early chapter book for newly confident readers.

[James Koppert]

Another Daisy book. Another fun brilliant adventure

[Alice English]

Just love the daisy series

[alice]

This book is really funny! It's really good for little kids 😄

[Abi Lynch]

Kids found it really funny

[Kerrie]

Good book for kids

[Isobel Burchell]

I liked the bit with Daisy and the catapult, and the end. It makes me want to go fishing!

[Year 5]

Great

[Kasia Ann]

This was a fun read that made us laugh a lot 😊

[Beatrice McGowan]

Good

[Eli]

I get that this is a book for very young children, but I still enjoyed it and found it pretty amusing. It definitely made a big change from dystopa/suicide novels that I normally read and added a bit of light comedy into my reading pattern.

It was a very good book and I would reccommend it for younger children. Sorry this review was a bit short :/

[Ngarisu]

I like the part where they teach you how to fish.

[Lucy]

The trouble with this book is that it's too small! I want more!

[Morganrose01]

I love it however I wish their was more as the book is tiny xxx