Daisy and the Trouble with Zoos

It’s Daisy’s birthday and she’s having a special birthday treat! Mum has invited her best friends, Gabby and Dylan, on a trip to the zoo – and, best of all, Mum has arranged for Daisy to go into the actual penguin cage with the actual zoo keeper and FEED actual penguins! REAL ACTUAL PENGUINS! With actual beaks and everything!!

Trouble is, Daisy gets a bit over over excited and there are lots and lots of other zoo animals to see before it’s time to visit the penguins. Daisy has lots of thoughts about everything they see. Like: “the trouble with rhinoceroses is they should go to the loo before the zoo opens. Gabby, Dylan and me had just sat on the wall and opened our sandwiches for lunch when the rhino in the big area did the most ginormous disgusting wee. It was so ginormous and so disgusting that we had to close our eyes.”

When at last it’s penguin feeding time, Daisy is surprised by how slimey the fish are . . . But the real surprise is Mum’s face on the way home when Daisy suddenly asks for a bag of frozen peas. The trouble with asking Mum for peas is she instantly knows something is up – Daisy has misinterpreted what it means to adopt a baby animal and a rather cute one (who needs to be kept chilled!) is hiding under her coat . . .