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.
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.
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!
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!
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 :/