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<div><p>Mathilde Stein (1969) born and raised in The Netherlands, studied at the Arts Academy in France.&#160; After living in France for ten years, she moved to the United Kingdom, where she works as Course Director and Senior Lecturer Event management at the University of Central England.</p><p>Chuck Groenink (1982) graduated in 2004 from The School of Arts in Kampen.&#160; He published his first comic book in 2007, competing in the Belgium comic book contest Het Salon.&#160; At the age of 25 he won the Fiep Westendorp Stimulating Award for young promising illustrators. He lives in Portland. <i>Dear Daisy Dunnington </i>is his first picture book.</p></div>

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A picture book about how dreams and imagination can fill even the grayest of lives with sparkling colors.

Poor Daisy Dunnington is her demanding mother's drudge. But then one day an unexpected letter drops on the doormat addressed to her. What can it be? Who can be writing to her? Perhaps it's from the queen's servant, explaining that she is really a princess, or is it from a movie producer, inviting her to play the lead role in his next film? As Daisy dreams all the possible lives she could have, she makes up her mind. Without even opening the letter, she leaves, heading for a more colorful future. Dear Daisy Dunnington is a book full of imagination and hope.

Very rarely has a picture book drawn the reader into a What if..? so strongly.

In beautiful illustrations, Chuck Groenink portrays the different exotic possibilities, each featuring another epistolary scenario.

A book that celebrates the power of the imagination

This downtrodden Cinderella decides to be her own fairy godmother after imagining the possibilities

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Dear Daisy Dunnington

By Mathilde Stein

Lemniscaat USA

Copyright © 2012 Mathilde Stein
All right reserved.
ISBN: 9781935954187
Wow! We've been watching you for weeks now, and we must admit: you're good. The way you can make yourself invisible! You must have been training for years in order to blend in so well with the walls.  That trick of pretending to live with your mother is not bad either.  Very clever indeed, to have her shouting loud that it covers up all the secret radio messages you must be sending.  So congratulations on your skills, D.  You make a fantastic secret agent.  You will understand, though, that we would strongly urge you to come over to our side.  We're sure you can crack the location code hidden in this message.  We will be waiting for you at 1200 hours precisely.  This letter will now self destruct.  


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