Daisy Comes Home

Daisy Comes Home
Author: Jan Brett
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2016-04-26
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0399549366

A hertwarming tale from the beloved author of The Mitten Mei Mei has the six happiest hens in China. She gives them treats and fresh hay baths, and when she calls to them-gu gu gu gu gu!-they all run to her as fast as they can. But one of the hens, Daisy, is not always so happy. The other hens pick on Daisy and push her off the perch every night, knowing that she is too small to stand up to them. Then one day Daisy accidentally drifts out onto the river in a basket and must quickly learn how to survive. When Daisy finds her way home, this plucky little hen is no longer afraid. Jan Brett and her husband, Joe, traveled with their daughter-in-law, Yun, and her husband, Sean, to China, the land where Yun was born. During this trip, Jan found the inspiration for Daisy's story.

Room Enough for Daisy Read-Along

Room Enough for Daisy Read-Along
Author: Debby Waldman
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2016-09-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1459816064

Daisy has more toys than she knows what to do with. In this story, inspired by an Eastern European folktale about a house that's too small, Daisy thinks she needs a bigger bedroom for all the gifts on her birthday list. Her clever mom helps her realize less is more, and Daisy decides to donate many of her things to a Mitzvah Day rummage sale. In the process, Daisy learns about sharing and the satisfaction that comes from choosing what's important.

When You Were Here

When You Were Here
Author: Daisy Whitney
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2013-06-04
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0316209732

Filled with humor, raw emotion, a strong voice, and a brilliant dog named Sandy Koufax, When You Were Here explores the two most powerful forces known to man-death and love. Daisy Whitney brings her characters to life with a deft touch and resonating authenticity. Danny's mother lost her five-year battle with cancer three weeks before his graduation-the one day that she was hanging on to see. Now Danny is left alone, with only his memories, his dog, and his heart-breaking ex-girlfriend for company. He doesn't know how to figure out what to do with her estate, what to say for his Valedictorian speech, let alone how to live or be happy anymore. When he gets a letter from his mom's property manager in Tokyo, where she had been going for treatment, it shows a side of a side of his mother he never knew. So, with no other sense of direction, Danny travels to Tokyo to connect with his mother's memory and make sense of her final months, which seemed filled with more joy than Danny ever knew. There, among the cherry blossoms, temples, and crowds, and with the help of an almost-but-definitely-not Harajuku girl, he begins to see how it may not have been ancient magic or mystical treatment that kept his mother going. Perhaps, the secret of how to live lies in how she died.

Come Along, Daisy!

Come Along, Daisy!
Author: Jane Simmons
Publisher: Megan Tingley Books
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2003-03-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780316168786

Daisy the duckling becomes so engrossed in playing with dragonflies and lily pads that she temporarily loses her mother.

Hedgie's Surprise

Hedgie's Surprise
Author: Jan Brett
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2016-04-26
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0399549307

Jan Brett's beloved character Hedgie stars in this charming story about a little Tomten who gets tired of porridge for breakfast and starts stealing Henny's eggs. But Henny wants a brood of chicks and she needs her eggs. With the help of clever Hedgie, she substitutes an acorn, a strawberry, a mushroom and finally a potato in her nest. But nothing stops that Tomten until the little hedgehog hides in Henny's nest: when the Tomten reaches in to get his morning treat, all he gets is a handful of prickles. He runs home for porridge and never comes back again! Intricate needlepoint patterns of Scandinavian designs frame the characters reacting from the borders in this beautiful picture book set in Denmark.

Thomas Comes Home

Thomas Comes Home
Author: Christopher Awdry
Publisher: Egmont Books (UK)
Total Pages: 64
Release: 2007
Genre: Children's stories
ISBN: 9781405231893

The Reverend Awdry created Thomas the Tank Engine for his son, Christopher Awdry, who continued his father's work by writing a further 14 books. Thomas fans will be delighted to see all of Christopher Awdry's stories beautifully reproduced and printed for the first time since 1996. Christopher Awdry's first Thomas book for 10 years is also being published by Egmont in September 2007.

Daisy Saves the Day

Daisy Saves the Day
Author: Shirley Hughes
Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
Total Pages: 33
Release: 2015
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0763673234

Working in a big house owned by two refined ladies to support her mother and brothers, a young scullery maid in early-twentieth-century England borrows books and dreams of a better life before saving her employers from a kitchen fire.

Vincent Comes Home

Vincent Comes Home
Author: Jessixa Bagley
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2018-02-13
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1250304822

Vincent lives on a cargo ship. His paws have never touched land. He spends his days chasing seagulls and eating fresh fish, and at night he stares at the stars that chart his ship’s course. The cargo ship makes stops all over the world but it never stops at “home.” What is “home?” Vincent wonders. As the ship makes one final stop, Vincent takes his first steps on land and follows a crew member to his home. Alone for the first time, Vincent wanders the city until he discovers the most important thing: Home is where the people you love are.

Daisy and Dee

Daisy and Dee
Author: Danuta Mullen
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 42
Release: 2018-10-19
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1984559818

Imagine if you were to experience a curious real-life encounter that otherwise could only occur in the pages of a fantasy book. An exotic gecko lizard gets discarded in the middle of a residential area of Stroud, Ontario. Trying to beat all the impossible odds to stay alive, she finds refuge in the garage of one of the houses on the street. To self-preserve, she eludes the residents with her presence for several months. She finally gives in and comes out in plain view to get rescued on a sunny afternoon at Thanksgiving, just one day before the first frost of the year would cover the ground. From that moment on, the destiny of the brave little lizard takes a very different turn. She would soon discover that the simple kindness of a human heart does, after all, exist.