This was the perfect book to use to introduce this week's story time theme -- "Fairy Tales". (It would also work well with a "Shadows" theme or a "Fair" theme.) On each page you see a shadow outline on vellum accompanied by the phrase "What can this be in the foggy, foggy forest?" Turn the page...
You absolutely can't go anywhere at all when you're grounded, so Daisy has plenty of time to think about what she's done. If only her pocket money hadn't run out and if someone hadn't dropped a strawberry candy on the pavement and if strawberry candy wasn't Daisy's absolute favorite, things could...
Mom has invited Daisy’s best friends, Gabby and Dylan, on a trip to the zoo—and, best of all, Mom has arranged for Daisy to go into the actual penguin cage with the actual zoo keeper and feed actual penguins—real penguins, with beaks and everything! Trouble is, Daisy doesn't just feed the penguin...
I got scared a lot, because Nan is seriously popular and everyone keeps popping round to have a natter with Rita. That’s Nan’s name. Everyone treats my nan like they want to be her best friend. She got nearly two hundred Christmas cards; Patsy and I counted them. Nan stick...
It was way past mine too. ‘Don’t you ever go off like that again,’ Jake said. ‘Kendall’s been crying for you.’ ‘No I haven’t,’ said Kendall, hitting him on the head with George. ‘I don’t want stupid old Lola Rose. I can’t stick her.’ ‘Is that true?’ I said. ‘Can’t we have a cuddle then?’ Kendall ...
I decided to tell Dad over breakfast instead, but he made special croissants, putting a funny black beret on his head and hanging a string of plastic onions round his neck, pretending to be French. I couldn’t tell him when he was prancing around singing Frère Jacques and calling me his little cab...
‘How were the kids? Did they wake? Did you give Lily her bottle? Did Harry want you to read to him?’ Mrs Raxberry said in a rush as she burst through the door. ‘They’ve been fine,’ I said. ‘Lily cried around ten and I warmed her bottle, but she was asleep again before I co...