Daisy and the Trouble with Life

Name: Daisy and the Trouble with Life
Brand: Penguin Random House UK
Availability: InStock
Author: Kes Gray
ISBN: 9781407075877

Author: Kes Gray

Series: Daisy Story #1

Narrator: Jadie-Rose Hobson

Unabridged: 1 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: RHCP Digital

Published: 03/18/2010

Categories: Children's Fiction, Children's Humor

Synopsis

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The trouble with life is it's sooooooo not fair. And the trouble with being grounded is it's sooooooo boring. You absolutely can't go anywhere at all. No hopping jumping, flying or parachuting . . . Daisy's got ever so much time to think about what she's done. Really, if her pocket money hadn't run out and if someone hadn't dropped a strawberry dib-dab on the pavement and if strawberry dib-dabs weren't Daisy's absolutely favourite sweet . . .
Who knew that it had invisible red germs that are so totally teensy and that Auntie Sue says give you tummy trouble? Daisy's trips to the loo are interspersed with hilarious musings about the trouble with everything, from her goldfish Freddie who thinks it's a dolphin, to the school name-caller Jack Beechwhistle, and hosepipes that don't do as they're told. Now, if only Daisy can find a word to rhyme with hippopotamus, she and Gabby can magic next door's cat into a hippo. When she's un-grounded and off the loo, of course . . .

©2007 Kes Gray and Nick Sharratt (P)2010 Random House Audiobooks

About Kes Gray

Kes Gray is the bestselling author of the OI FROG AND FRIENDS series of books that has sold over 1.5 million copies and has been adapted into a theatre show. He is a multi-award-winning author with over 70 books published. He eats Ideaflakes for breakfast, spreads silliness on his toast and loves to write books that will make children laugh out loud. He has won the Sainsbury's Children's Book Award and the Laugh Out Loud Book Award and has been shortlisted for the British Book Awards. Kes is based in Essex.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Simon on October 14, 2023

While I didn't totally get into this book, I can't help feeling there's a lot of depth beneath the surface of the two main characters -- Daisy and her mum. Daisy's the storyteller. She's been grounded and we only find out why later. She also keeps disappearing at the end of the early chapters, and th......more

Goodreads review by Vinay on August 02, 2022

It was fun reading this book and start a new series of Daisy and the trouble with..!! Its actually fun when you make each chapter like a bedtime story. I would recommend this book for 8-11 year olds because of the basic language used.......more

Goodreads review by Tim on May 07, 2022

Daisy is nearly as good as Penelope "Penny Dreadful" Jones.......more

Goodreads review by Skyler on September 17, 2024

I loved all of it. My favourite bit was when Daisy germy strawberry dib dab. It's weird 🤣......more

Goodreads review by Kath on March 31, 2024

This book is cute and funny. The voice is really strong, using the repetition of 'the trouble with' as a narrative device for Daisy to tell us about her world. It reminds me of a stream of consciousness, but for children. Each 'trouble with' is like a self contained joke or story. There's also an in......more

Quotes

Daisy, with her perfectly round face, determined, beady eyes and severe Joan of Arc coif, is a veritable icon of juvenile intransigence Publishers Weekly

Full of humour, this is great for newly confident readers. The Children's Booksellers Buyers Guide

Perfect for confident readers The Bookseller

This is a great book to encourage new readers amd to bring on those who enjoyed the previous Daisy books. Waterstone's Books Quarterly

A well-written and comical read The Big Issue Cymru