Book description
It's Daisy's birthday and she's having a special birthday treat! Mum
has invited her best friends, Gabby and Dylan, on a trip to the zoo -
and, best of all, Mum has arranged for Daisy to go into the actual
penguin cage with the actual zoo keeper and FEED actual penguins! REAL
ACTUAL PENGUINS! With actual beaks and everything!! Trouble is, Daisy
doesn't just feed the penguins, she 'adopts' one to take home and
everything . . .
Kes Gray was noted by The Independent as one of the top
ten children's authors in the UK in 2003. He is the author of the
award-winning Eat Your Peas and four more titles in the
acclaimed Daisy series, as well as Our Twitchy and Billy's
Bucket, illustrated by Garry Parsons, winner of the Red House
Children's Book Award for Younger Readers. He also works as the
Creative Director for an advertising agency.
Garry Parsons studied Fine Art at Brighton College and after
that he went on to study illustration. His picture books include
Billy's Bucket, winner of the 2004 Children's Book Award,
Krong!, winner of the Words Out! Picture Book Prize, and G.
E.M. by Jane Clarke. He has also illustrated George's Secret
Key by Lucy and Stephen Hawking. He lives in London.
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.
