BOOK TOUR: DAISY WOODWORM CHANGES THE WORLD
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I thank TBR and Beyond Tour, Jolly Fish Press, and Melissa Hart for giving me the opportunity to be one of the hosts on this book tour. Please check on this link for the tour schedule: Tour Schedule.
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Daisy Woodworm Changes the World by Melissa Hart
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Synopsis:
When her social studies teacher assigns each student a project to change the world for the better along with an oral report, Daisy fears the class bully—who calls her Woodworm— will make fun of her lisp. Still, she decides to help Sorrel fulfill his dream of becoming a YouTube fashion celebrity despite their parents’ refusal to allow him on social media.
With the help of her best friend Poppy, and Miguel—the most popular boy in school and her former enemy—Daisy launches Sorrel’s publicity campaign. But catastrophe strikes when her parents discover him online along with hateful comments from a cyberbully.
If Daisy has any hope of changing the world, she’ll have to regain her family’s trust and face her fears of public speaking to find her own unique and powerful voice.
My rating: ★★★★
This is a story about Daisy Woodward, who gets bullied at school because of her lisp, and because of that she is always avoiding public attention. Even just to pass out gingerbread rabbits to her brother and other athletes at the Special Olympics Moonlight Ball becomes a big problem for her. One day, her social studies teacher assigns each student a project that is called Change the World. This is a project where every student has to make an innovation that can make the world a better place, and after that they have to present it in front of the class. For someone who hates the spotlight, this is the worst thing that could happen to Daisy. How does someone like her change the world? What will she do? She decides to help her brother become a YouTube star!
"How on earth am I going to make the world a better place if I can’t even improve it for myself?"
Meet the brother, Sorrel Woodward. Sorrel has Down Syndrome, because of that their parents become overprotective. No social media! The problem is, unlike Daisy, Sorrel loves to be in the public eye. He likes dressing up and he is good with it. He is thinking about sharing his fashion tips with other people throughout YouTube. So, Daisy helps him. She thinks that maybe his videos can change the way the world sees people with Down Syndrome.
"Maybe his fashion videos, and the ones he made for Save Summer Games, are helping YouTube viewers think about people with Down syndrome in a new way. I mean, maybe his videos are changing their world."
Sorrel is based on a true person. He is the author's brother, Mark, and he is actually the reason why Melissa Hart wrote this book. She wants to make the world see that people with Down Syndrome are not different from us. They have dreams too, and they are keen to make them come true. They just need a great deal of assistance from the people around them.
"Long ago, I realized what Daisy has to discover for herself in the novel—our challenges make us interesting."
I love the message that the author tries to tell the readers. It gives us some awareness about them, about their way of thinking, and how we should treat them. Just because they are different, doesn't mean they are less than us.
This book has such a heavy main topic. But, the writing style makes it so easy to read. It was so fun and heartwarming. I think it would be perfect for children. The message is so clear, it won't be hard for them to understand what the author's trying to tell the readers. I really enjoyed reading it. I even finished it in one day and that was so rare to happen to me.
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Melissa Hart
I’m an Oregon-based author, journalist, and instructor for the MFA in Creative Writing program at Southern New Hampshire University. My essays and articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, The Los Angeles Times, Real Simple, Orion, High Country News, The Rumpus, Brevity, Woman’s Day, The Advocate, Parents, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Hemispheres, and numerous other publications.
I’m the author of The Media Adventurer’s Handbook: Decoding Persuasion in Everyday News, Ads, and More (World Citizen Comics, 2023), Daisy Woodworm Changes the World (Jolly Fish, 2022), Better with Books: 500 Diverse Books to Ignite Empathy and Encourage Self-Acceptance in Tweens and Teens(Sasquatch, 2019), the award-winning middle-grade novel Avenging the Owl(Sky Pony, 2016), the memoir Wild Within: How Rescuing Owls Inspired a Family (Lyons, 2007), and the memoir Gringa: A Contradictory Girlhood(Seal, 2005).
I’m a contributing editor at The Writer Magazine, and I teach frequently at writing conferences, libraries, universities, and bookstores. I grew up near Los Angeles with my younger brother, who has Down syndrome. I live in Eugene with my husband and teen daughter, where I love to run and hike long-distance, cross country ski, kayak, cycle, cook, and roam the Pacific Northwest as an amateur naturalist.
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