Daisy and the Trouble with Life. Kes Gray (Illustrated By Nick Sharratt). Keynote - Daisy's guide to life - cheeky, extremely readable and funny young fiction, now with fabulous CD read by Jadie-Rose Hobson and James Goode. Description - 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 ...
It's SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO unfair. Daisy's been grounded. No HOPPING or SKIPPING, FLYING or PARACHUTING. She's lucky she's even been allowed out of her bedroom after what she's done. But what HAS she done that is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO naughty?
That's the TROUBLE with the back covers of books. You just have to read the inside to find out!
어린이들이 깔깔 웃을 수 있는 책을 쓰는 것을 좋아합니다. 지금까지 칠십 권이 넘는 책을 썼습니다. 세인스베리 아동 도서상과 라프 아웃 라우드 도서상을 받았으며, 영국 도서상 최종 후보에도 올랐습니다. 지은 책으로는 〈야!〉 시리즈와 《"네 이름이 뭐라고?!"》《그래도 언제나 널 사랑해》 등이 있습니다.
영국 세인트마틴예술학교에서 미술 공부를 했고, 현재 일러스트레이터로 활동하고 있습니다. 여러 작가들의 책에 그림을 그렸는데, 특히 그의 발랄한 그림풍과 잘 어우러지는 재클린 윌슨의 유쾌한 글에 그림을 많이 그렸습니다. 그린 책으로 《꼬마 괴물과 나탈리》, 《일주일은 엄마네, 일주일은 아빠네》, 《쌍둥이 루비와 가닛》 들이 있습니다.