Jake was clueless about his mother’s weight gain. “He felt stupid . . . not to notice . . . [but] there are other things to think about . . . football and fish and stuff” (14). Daisy’s birth revolutionizes Jake’s world—and not just because he’s no longer an only child. Because of Daisy he’s met Stella and her boisterous family. But of all the events that occur in the time follow ing Daisy’s arrival, it’s the horrendous accident that Jake thinks he caused that reunites Jake and Stella. Parkinson’s poetic prose wings off the page into readers’ hearts, where it builds a nest—one that is feather light and painfully heavy. 2007 USBBY Outstanding International Books List. Siobhán Parkinson won the Bisto Book of the Year Award, Ireland’s prestigious award for children’s literature. lmp

Originally published by Puffin Great Britain, in 2006.