Daisy Comes Home

Daisy was a lonely hen, living in a full hen house. Everyday Daisy gets picked on till one day she finally decides she had enough. Daisy finds a basket which then leads her into an adventure! This was a lovely read and perfect for the classroom. Many lessons can be learned from it. It teaches children that everyone should stand up for what you believe in, even if the other children don't agree.

This book is about a hen named Daisy who is smaller than all the other hens. She is smaller and not confident in herself. Daisy falls asleep in a basket and floats around the river and interacts with different animals. This book portrays to children that they should not make fun of other people for their difference. It also shows children that if they are being picked on they should not let people continue to do it.

I am a big fan of Daisy Comes Home by Jan Brett. I read this book as a kid and the language is very descriptive in the setting of China and describing the Li River, however not too complex to where children would not be able to follow along in the story. This book is perfect for a read aloud because of how engaging and detail-oriented the illustrations are and the text is at the bottom of each page which makes it easier for the students to see during story time. I appreciate the inclusion of Chinese culture in the book because it is important to expose children at a young age to different backgrounds and cultures.

I had mixed feelings about this book because I remember enjoying it being read to me as a child, but when I finished reading it, I was unsure of the value it had toward being a good piece of literature for children to read. It is not a commercial books, but it does contain a main message. The message it expressed via the chicken Daisy is that one cannot give up when things become tough, but it is important to face challenges to obtain the skills needed to stand up for oneself. This related to me at this point in my life because my family and I have chickens and there is a pecking order that determines who has more control. This books demonstrates that Daisy would let the other chickens push her around and knock her off the roosting bar show more at night. Daisy sought warmth in the “Happy Hens” basket her owner made, which was located close to the river. As the river begins to creep up on the bank where Daisy was, she is pulled into the current of the river and floats down to faces her challenges: a barking dog, a large water buffalo, a troop of red-tailed monkeys, and finally a fisherman. With these experiences, she was able to take a stand to the other chickens: “When one of the big hens fluffed up her wings and spread out, expecting Daisy to fall off the perch like always, Daisy flapped her wings. “I learned that from a boat dog,” she clucked.” I noticed while reading, each page had a bubble on the top left page and bottom right page that gave a glimpse into future events that would follow up with the information on the current pages. This would be a great tool to develop context clue skills, predictions, and inferences. show less

This is a great book to teach students that bullying is wrong. It talks about a hen who is bullied and how she overcomes the bullying. So, this book not only teaches the bullying is bad, but it also teaches students that are being bullied to stand up for themselves. This might be a great book for a class that is having bully issues. The illustrations are very colorful and each page has a small picture of what will happen on the next page in the bottom corner. This is great because students can attempt to guess what is going to happen next before they read it.

I enjoyed reading the book, "Daisy Comes Home." I would read this book to second or third grade. The book takes place in China. The story is about a hen who gets lost. The hens were called happy hens and they produced brown eggs for their owner to sell. Daisy was their owners favorite because all the other hens picked on her. That night the other hens had pushed her sleeping basket out into the lake. Daisy floated away and a fishman found her. The nest day when their owner went to market to sell the eggs she saw daisy with the fisherman and got her back. When she came home the other hens tried to pick on her again but she stood up to them and now they all get along. i think that this book would be really good if you are dicussing show more different cultures. The book showed a chinese market and village, and that is not something out typical elementary class would see everyday. The book also had the lesson not to pick on others and how it hurts their feelings. All in all I really thought this was a good book. show less

Daisy comes home reflects the culture of historic Chinese villages that students do not often learn about in school. In an informational blurb at the end of the book, Brett explains that she was inspired to write this book after taking a trip to china with her son and daughter in law. I like this book because although it is about a chicken that has emotions like a human, the chicken still keeps its animal qualities. Daisy the chicken is not seen talking or walking, she still clucks and moves the way a chicken does and uses her beak and wings to her advantage in the way a chicken would intimidate another animal. Jan Brett’s images did not disappoint. On several pages the chicken keeper, Mei Mei was seen looking for Daisy in the top show more left corner. This allows the reader to see that the story continues for all characters and not just where the main action is taking place. show less