Daisy Comes Home by Jan Brett is about a girl name Mel Mel who has 6 happy hens in China. She took good care of her hens by giving them fresh hay, baths, and when she calls to them, Gu-gu-gu-gu-gu! they all run to her as fast as they can. One of her hens, Daisy, was the smallest and the other hens used to pick on her. One night, Daisy was asleep in a basket when it drifted out onto the river. She woke up facing a barking dog, and she was suddenly fighting to get away. She traveled some more to a buffalo taking a morning drink and once again flapped her wings to get away. Next, she traveled into a troop of red-tailed monkeys where she flapped and pecked, nipped and squawked to get away. As she continued to float down the river she ran into a fisherman who decided to take her to the market to sell. Mel Mel so sad about Daisy being gone heard from a boy at the market that the fisherman was selling her. She ran down to the fisherman and called Gu-gu-gu-gu to Daisy who busted out of the net and came running to her as fast as she can. Mel Mel picked her up and ran home. That night Daisy used what she learned on her travels down the river and fought back the other hens and was happy once again.
This trade book is a multicultural folktale. There is some make-believe parts but for most of the book its logical and even realistic.
Some motivational activities you can do with this book is communication activities - talk about the market in China and how it works. How a hen farm is set-up and what they are good for. How when you go on an adventure you can learn new and positive things to help you later in life.
I thought this was a very good book and really enjoyed it. I liked how in the top and bottom parts of the book it always showed a picture of what you read and what was next to come.
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