Daisy and the Trouble with Maggots

Daisy Fiction

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

Daisy is incredibly excited when her uncle offers to take her on a fishing trip. There's so much new stuff to learn! Like how water witches turn fishermen into dog poos, why supermarkets don't stock picknicky 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 amunition...

240 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 18, 2011

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 · Rating 5 out of 5]

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

[Genevieve · Rating 2 out of 5]

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 · Rating 4 out of 5]

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

[Kath · Rating 4 out of 5]

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 · Rating 4 out of 5]

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

[James Koppert · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another Daisy book. Another fun brilliant adventure

[Alice English · Rating 5 out of 5]

Just love the daisy series

[alice · Rating 4 out of 5]

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

[Abi Lynch · Rating 5 out of 5]

Kids found it really funny

[Kerrie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good book for kids

[Isobel Burchell · Rating 5 out of 5]

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

[Year 5 · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great

[Eli · Rating 4 out of 5]

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 · Rating 5 out of 5]

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

[Lucy · Rating 5 out of 5]

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

[Morganrose01 · Rating 5 out of 5]

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