Daisy saves the day / Shirley Hughes.
Material type:
TextPublisher: Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2014Edition: First U.S. editionDescription: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cmContent type: - still image
- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0763673234
- 9780763673239
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book
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Main Library | Children's Picturebook | Books for Big Kids | Hughes Shirley | Available | 33111008021111 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Beloved author-illustrator Shirley Hughes portrays the life of a young scullery maid in 1911 England as she stumbles and scrabbles toward her true place in life.
Daisy Dobbs has a mother and little twin brothers, but she lives far from them, serving as a maid in a big house owned by two refined old ladies. Daisy scrubs floors and sweeps stairs, washes dishes and peels potatoes. And sometimes she makes mistakes--like hanging the ladies' red bloomers out the window for all to see. But in the evenings, Daisy sometimes has a moment to herself, which she uses for her favorite thing: borrowing books from the big house's parlor. When disaster strikes in the form of a kitchen fire, and Daisy's quick thinking saves the day, the ladies reward her in the best possible way. With atmospheric text and engaging illustrations, Shirley Hughes gently reminds us that reading is a gift to be treasured.
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.