Fantastic Daisy Artichoke - Hardcover

Blake, Quentin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0224046551 ISBN 13: 9780224046558

Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1999

Synopsis

The story is told by two neighbourhood children in off-beat rhyming text which is complemented by the vivid illustrations. They describe fantastic Daisy Artichoke, "her three black cats we like to stroke", "her raven with the awful croak", and "her pig that almost never woke".

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Review:

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 Jardine

Review:

"The first children's laureate has given us an immortal heroine." --"Junior "From the Trade Paperback edition.

About this edition

• Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0224046551
• ISBN 13: 9780224046558
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 32