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Authors: Steve Voake
Daisy Dawson at the Beach (8 page)
You just had to know where to look.
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D
AISY
D
AWSON AND HER
ANIMAL FRIENDS IN ANOTHER ADVENTURE!
Daisy Dawson Is on Her Way!
Steve Voake
illustrated by Jessica Meserve
“Daisy’s romp, complete with a few close scrapes, involves her joining forces with a squirrel and a horse in an attempt to rescue a dog from a kennel. . . . A charmer.” —
School Library Journal
D
IVE INTO ANOTHER
D
AISY
D
AWSON ADVENTURE!
Daisy Dawson and the Secret Pond
Steve Voake
illustrated by Jessica Meserve
Daisy Dawson and her animal friends Boom and Cyril are off to take a photograph of a pair of shy river otters for Daisy’s school project. Along with Conker and Hazel, Cyril’s mischievous nephew and niece, it’s the perfect day with friends — until storm clouds begin to gather. Will Daisy get the shot she needs before the weather gets her?
Steve Voake
is author of the Daisy Dawson series. Before becoming a full-time writer, he was the principal of the school in England that inspired the “Jack and Jill” nursery rhyme. About
Daisy Dawson Is on Her Way!,
he says, “My daughter, Daisy, loves animals, and when she was little, she was always having conversations with them. I thought it would be rather fun to imagine what it would be like if they started talking back to her — and that’s how Daisy Dawson was born!” Steve Voake lives in Somerset, England.
Jessica Meserve
illustrates and designs books for children and is the author-illustrator of the picture book
Small Sister.
She lives in Edmonton, Canada.
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either products of the author’s imagination or, if real, are used fictitiously.
Text copyright © 2010 by Steve Voake
Illustrations copyright © 2010 by Jessica Meserve
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, transmitted, or stored in an information retrieval system in any form or by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, taping, and recording, without prior written permission from the publisher.
First U.S. electronic edition 2011
The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition as follows:
Voake, Steve.
Daisy Dawson at the beach / Steve Voake. — 1st U.S. ed.
p. cm.
Summary: Spending the whole summer at the beach, Daisy, who can communicate with animals, and her new friends — a dancing crab and two baby rabbits — join forces to help a dolphin in distress.
ISBN 978-0-7636-5306-4 (hardcover)
[1. Human-animal communication — Fiction. 2. Animals — Fiction. 3. Beaches — Fiction. 4. Vacations — Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.V8556Dah 2010
[Fic] — dc22 2010040341
ISBN 978-0-7636-5459-7 (electronic)
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