Little Daisy
By Jean Ure
2002
First Published
3.41
Average Rating
96
Number of Pages
A rags to riches story of a young orphan who becomes a famous actress. Daisy is brought up in a foundling's hospital in Victorian times. At ten she is sent into service as a skivvy at the Dobell Academy, where she watches all the pupils learning how to be young ladies, wearing fine clothes and learning how to read, write and...dance. Daisy dreams of being like them one day and painstakingly teaches herself to read with the help of one kind teacher. A wonderful unashamedly sentimental rags-to-riches story which young readers from 7 and upwards will adore.
Avg Rating
3.41
Number of Ratings
29
5 STARS
21%
4 STARS
28%
3 STARS
34%
2 STARS
7%
1 STARS
10%
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Author
Jean Ure
Author · 61 books
Prolific English children and young adult author. Had her first book published while still in high school, then studied theater at Webber-Douglas in London. Her most well-known work is the Point Crime novel Dance with Death. Others include Plague 99, After the Plague (previously "Come Lucky April"), Big Tom, Family Fan Club and Shrinking Violet, as well as the fantasy The Wizard In the Woods. Today, Ure is very popular with British female teenage readers with novels such as Shrinking Violet, Family Fan Club and Passion Flower. Ure has also translated Danish writer Sven Hassel's WWII novels to English.
