LoveReading4Kids Says
The Worst Birthday Ever, the first book in Joanna Nadin’s funny, family-centred Disaster Diaries series, is driven by the energetic, free-flowing narrative of almost-eight-year-old Daffodil — a girl who’s as cheery as her name, and chockful of “bobby dazzlers” i.e. in her words, “brilliant ideas”. Trouble is, Daffodil is also very prone to disaster, usually as a result of thinking up said bobby dazzlers!
Presented as Daffodil’s diary, readers of The Worst Birthday Ever are given engagingly- amusing insights into the inner workings of her mind, with lots of funny detail on her friends, family and deepest thoughts. For example, as the smallest person in her household, she often feels “UTTERLY forgotten”, but at the same time, she’s the kind of get-things-done girl who can’t help but make a BIG impression. In this case, Daffodil’s dreams of having a “SUPREME and UNBEATABLE” birthday party go somewhat awry in ways no one could have imagined!
Ideal for newly confident readers with a thirst for funny character-based fiction, and enlivened by Rikin Parekh’s quirkily comic illustrations, The Worst Birthday Ever is a feast of fun, friendship, family and madcap antics.
Joanne Owen
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The Worst Birthday Ever Synopsis
Daffodil Patterson is a small girl with BIG plans - it's really not her fault that they always seem to go wrong … The start of a brilliantly funny new series for young readers, from the author and illustrator of The Worst Class in the World, shortlisted for the Laugh out Loud Book Awards 2024.
Soon-to-be eight-year-old Daffodil likes the dictionary, the middle bit in custard cream biscuits, and thinking BIG. She does NOT like her cousin Hugo Patterson-Dent, who has ten more gold stars than she does; the biscuit bit of custard creams (but that's OK because her friend Nirmal-Next-Door eats that); or any sort of catastrophe. The trouble is that somehow Daffodil's ambitious plans tend to go pear-shaped …
Daffodil is hoping for the Best Birthday Party EVER. But she hasn't reckoned on Colin, the greyhound with an appetite for everything except dog food. Or the fact that her brother's band Hairy Wasp would break up before they could provide the entertainment. Or the total lack of guests.
Luckily, Daffodil has the knack of looking on the bright side and is soon planning her next absolute bobby-dazzler of an idea!
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9781526675583 |
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16th January 2025 |
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Joanna Nadin |
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Rikin Parekh |
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Bloomsbury Children's Books an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) |
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Paperback |
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162 pages |
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Disaster Diaries |
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Joanna Nadin Press Reviews
'I love this... A funny chaotic diary. One of those delightful books both my nine year old and my six year old enjoy. A delight to read aloud.' - Sally Nicholls, award-winning author of Ways to Live Forever
About Joanna Nadin
Joanna Nadin is a winner of the Fantastic Book Award, the Surrey Book Award, Blue Peter 'Book of the Month' and Radio 4 Open Book 'Book of the Year'. She has been shortlisted for the Booktrust Best Book Award and Queen of Teen, and Spies, Dad, Big Lauren and Me was selected for the Richard and Judy Book Club. In 2011, Penny Dreadful is a Magnet for Disaster was shortlisted for the Roald Dahl Funny Prize. Joe All Alone was nominated for the 2016 C ILIP C arnegie Medal. She writes the Flying Fergus series with Sir Chris Hoy. Joanna previously worked as a policy writer for the Labour Party and a special adviser to the Prime Minister. She continues to freelance as a speechwriter and editor, and lectures in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University.
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