Fantastic Daisy Artichoke Book

Fantastic Daisy Artichoke is another wonderful classic from the pen of celebrated children's writer Quentin Blake. This story is written as a very amusing and easy-to-read poem--"The iron stove she loved to stoke / that filled the room with clouds of smoke / Amazing Daisy Artichoke!"--and Blake's renowned illustrative skills accompany the story on each colourful page in a superbly expressive, chuckle-inducing way. Daisy Artichoke is a grown-up friend of a little boy and girl and they love to visit her for lots of reasons which the poem gradually reveals. What fun they have when they visit her! What a weird and wonderful person she is! Each page of this large-format book has a different activity: Her bike that almost always broke / The pond in which she liked to soak / Her lovely raggedy patchwork cloak...". Read aloud, the poem is as expressive as the drawings, building to an emphatic close. Daisy is a character who will become a childhood favourite. A superior early-years book, "not like other folk" Daisy Artichoke will endure for many generations. --Alison JardineRead More