Daisy's Perfect Word

By Susan Mitchell and Sandra V. Feder

The joys of reading and words come alive in this fresh and fun story about one girl’s search for the perfect word.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Kids Can Press
• Release date: Jan 29, 2014
• ISBN: 9781554539888

Susan Mitchell

Susan Mitchell is originally from Scotland, where she studied drawing and painting at the Edinburgh College of Art. In 1993, she moved to Montreal, where now lives with her husband and son while working as a freelance commercial illustrator. (Susan has designedmore Christmas cards than Santa has whiskers.) She also illustrated Paula Deen's My First Cookbook.

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To my father, who taught me how to write, and to my family for providing the inspiration — S.V.F.

Contents  

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Daisy’s Wonderful Word Lists

Daisy’s Golden Glossary

About the Author and Illustrator

Chapter One 

On sunny days, Daisy liked picking lemons off the tree in her backyard to make lemonade. She liked playing kickball with her friends and making long dandelion chains, which she wore in her curly hair. On rainy days, Daisy liked putting on her red boots and stomping through puddles, making big, messy splashes.

Almost every day, Daisy rode her bike around the neighborhood with her best friend, Emma. They often stopped to see Mrs. Bookman, who lived on the corner. Mrs. Bookman always had something unusual to eat, like roasted pumpkin seeds, and something interesting to talk about, like how some people are left-handed. I’m left-dimpled! Daisy said, smiling to show off the dimple in her left cheek.

But Daisy’s favorite part of any day was when she would sit in the shade of the largest tree in her backyard or curl up in her cozy chair with a book in her hands. Daisy liked books because books were full of words.

And more than making lemonade or wildflower chains or riding her bike with her best friend, Daisy

Reviews for Daisy's Perfect Word

[mwade4-1 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Daisy loves words. She has lists of words in her green notebook covered in polka dots. Her teacher, Miss Goldner announces to the class that she is engaged and will be moving to a new school at the end of the school year. Daisy and her classmates all decided they wanted to buy their teacher engagement gifts. Daisy wanted her gift to be special and decided she would give her the perfect word.Sandra Feder does an excellent job of portraying Daisy to readers in a relatable way. Readers at this age are constantly hearing words and adding different words to their personal vocabulary. This creative book will keep readers intrigued throughout the story to find out what the perfect word is going to be. For instance, Daisy thought that rainbow would be the perfect word, but ayer thinking about it a little longer she changed her mind about this word (pg. 53). Daisy continued to do this earlier in the story with many different words as well. I thought this was a great book. Daisy was portrayed in a very detailed way to readers so that they could see and feel the passion she had for words. Daisy's innocence with life itself is seen through her attitude and actions everyday as well. This is great for beginner readers as well because most of the words used are short and will not cause readers too many difficulties. I love the way that the author used different text features to differentiate between the words in the text and those specific to Daisy's word lists. The author uses italics to show and highlight the words that Daisy has written down on her many lists. This is a good strategy so then beginning readers will be able to tell which words are important to Daisy and written down in her notebook. The ending of this book was my favorite! I just love the way the author ended the book with Daisy's word lists and glossary. The page with just her perfect word on it was another great touch that was added. This allowed readers to see the words that Daisy had talked about the entire book. This was a very cute way to end the book for all of the interested readers that wanted to know what other words were on Daisy's lists. The central message of this book is to enjoy reading and the pleasure it brings. Words can bring thrill to any reader's mind if they just allow it to. Another idea brought about in this book is in regards to relationships. Daisy struggles with different relationships in her life and how to deal with these relationships. You should be kind to everyone, even if you may not like everyone.