Strike a Pose, Daizy Star Award-winning author by Cathy Cassidy (author) (UK edition)

Author/Illustrator

Cathy Cassidy

Cathy Cassidy’s stirring teen novels have a huge following. Their optimism, realism and empathy explain their popularity, especially with girls, and are perfect for fans of Jacqueline Wilson.

More about Cathy: “I was born in 1962 in Coventry (scarily ancient, I know!). I wrote my first picture book for my little brother when I was eight or nine. I loved making comics, too – pages and pages of picture stories, features and competitions. I’d sell my homemade comic to a friend for 5p, then claim it back and sell it again to someone else,they didn’t have photocopiers back then!

I went to Art College in Liverpool, then got a job as fiction editor on the fab and legendary Jackie magazine. Later, I married my boyfriend Liam, went back to college and trained to be an art teacher. I taught in a Coventry secondary school for a few years, which I loved, then moved to Scotland with Liam to start a family.

My kids are 13 and 14 years old now, and the four of us live in a cottage in the Galloway hills with sheep and cows for neighbours. As well as writing books, I am the agony aunt on Shout magazine and sometimes teach art in the local primary schools, which is great fun and keeps me sane. (Well, maybe!)

I’ve been veggie for 30 years, and was vegan for 8 of them – a chocolate-eating vegan, like Storm! I love old clothes, old toys, cars, books. We have three cats, two rabbits and a mad, hairy lurcher called Kelpie (the model for Leggit in my book Dizzy).

I love my family, I love living in the middle of nowhere and I love my work. Of all my jobs, writing has to be the best – it’s the perfect excuse to daydream, after all!”

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1. natashakrywald
   on 8 March 2013

   very good

2. lap312i
   on 6 March 2013

   i like the cover. it catches my eye

3. Dostine
   on 2 March 2013

   Strike a Pose, Daizy Star

   Meet the one and only Daizy Star! She’s spent years looking for her star quality, trying to live up to her name. But now Daizy is sure she’s finally found her special talent. She’s modelling at the school fashion show, and she’s determined to make her mark. Unfortunately, Dad’s latest crazy scheme is threatening to ruin her big break. Can Daizy stop him from turning her family into castaways on a remote and rainy Scottish island? And will she be able to turn herself into a top supermodel in time for the fashion show? Is Daizy about to shoot to fame – or become a catwalk catastrophe?

4. masha6510
   on 18 February 2013

   Really good book, fantastic! I could not put it down…

   3out of 5

5. AmyXx
   on 6 March 2012

   Great book!

6. aeroaeromonkey
   on 1 March 2012

   Soooo great.

   4out of 5

7. ToxicTiger
   on 1 March 2012

   This book is pretty good. Daizy want’s to model in the fashion show, but as usual Dad’s plans threaten to ruin it….

8. mmmcool123
   on 2 November 2011

   This book is really good and enjoyable. I think everyone should read this book.

   5out of 5