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Daisy Comes Home
By Jan Brett
Review By: Jessica Glenn- Elementary Substitute- Central PA
Daisy Comes Home is a story about Mei Mei’s hens and how they were not always the way they are today. It is a story about the hen that Mei Mei calls Daisy, and how she was picked on all the time. It goes into detail about how mean the other hens were to her and the way that they tried to get rid of her by pushing her off the perch. One evening Daisy begins an adventure. She finds herself in a basket floating down the Yangze River and along the way she runs into some trouble with a dog, a water buffalo, red-tailed monkeys, and a fisherman. Daisy survives and at the end of the story she makes it back home and shares with the other hens what she learned on her journey. The hens are all happy then and they make room for Daisy as an equal because she learned to stand up for herself.
This story has amazing detailed pictures in it. It also has a very good lesson on acceptance, standing up for yourself and having confidence and could be applied to bully awareness programs. I would personally use this story with 1st or 2nd graders.
