Daisy: Yuk!

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Here comes trouble! This is a fantastically funny story about what happens when Mum tries to make Daisy wear a . . . dress! Yuk! Here comes trouble! A super-dooper Daisy picture book - from Kes Gray, author of the bestselling Oi Frog and Friends, and Nick Sharratt, award-winning illustrator of You Choose and Pants! Auntie Sue is getting married and she's asked Daisy to be her bridesmaid! But Daisy doesn't do dresses and she CERTAINLY DOESN'T DO LOVELY. She WILL wear- A football kit Scuba gear Her leopard skin suit But Mum and Auntie Sue STILL drag her to a dress shop! And everything in there is 'YUK!' Can Daisy strike a deal and wear a dress that is perfect for her? A laugh-out-loud story that will appeal to cheeky children everywhere (and their extremely patient grown-ups!).

Kes Gray was noted by The Independent as one of the top ten children's authors in the UK in 2003 and twice winner of the Children's Book Award. He is the author of the award-winning Eat Your Peas and five more titles in the acclaimed Daisy series, as well as Our Twitchy and Who's Poorly Too?, illustrated by Mary McQuillan, and Billy's Bucket, illustrated by Garry Parsons (winner of the 2004 Red House Children's Book Award for Younger Readers). He also works as a freelance advertising copyrighter. Nick Sharratt has written and illustrated many books for children. Pants, written by Giles Andreae, won the 2003 Children's Book Award and The Hundred-Mile-An-Hour Dog by Jeremy Strong won it in 1997. He is the illustrator of all Jacqueline Wilson's prize-winning children's novels and his work appears in Playdays and Cosmopolitan. He lives in Brighton.

. . . brilliantly structured so that it holds the interest when read aloud rather as a good joke must before arriving at its punchline . . . Nick Sharratt's bright, simple pictures look almost as though an inspired child had produced them - and that may well be why children respond to them so warmly * Observer *