Daisy and the Trouble with Zoos
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Chapter Book · Ages 8–11 · 2020

Daisy and the Trouble with Zoos

By Kes Gray, Garry Parsons (Illustrator), Nick Sharratt (Illustrator)

Part of the Daisy Story series

A birthday zoo trip leads to unexpected penguin trouble.

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224 pages
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Daisy's birthday takes a wild turn when her special zoo trip with friends Gabby and Dylan leads to an unexpected adventure. Entrusted with feeding penguins, Daisy can't resist secretly adopting one. But as she soon learns, penguins aren't the easiest pets. Will Daisy manage to keep her new friend hidden, or will her birthday surprise turn into chaos? Dive into this laugh-out-loud adventure where the stakes are high, and the penguins are real!

From the publisher

Daisy’s in trouble again! Cheeky, extremely readable and funny young fiction from the bestselling author behind the hilarious OI FROG series.Another BRILLIANT laugh-out-loud Daisy adventure, from bestselling author of the Oi Frog series, Kes Gray.Here comes trouble!Daisy is SO excited because it’s her BIRTHDAY and she’s getting a special treat!Mum is taking Daisy and her best friends Gabby and Dylan to the zoo.The trouble with zoos is, the animals are TOO CUTE. Especially the penguins…So when Daisy gets to go into the ACTUAL penguin cage with the ACTUAL zookeeper and feed the ACTUAL penguins, it really isn’t her fault that she has to secretly adopt one.But Daisy soon discovers that the trouble with penguins is, they don’t make the easiest pets.

Awards

FCBG Children’s Book Award (2009)
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Format
Paperback
Pages
224
Reading age
8–11
Audience
Juvenile Reader
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Publication
Published
March 5, 2020
Publisher
Red Fox
Edition
Language
English
Type
Chapter Book
Identifiers
ISBN
9781782959656

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