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Please Don't Eat the Daisies

Please Don't Eat the Daisies

Please Don't Eat the Daisies is a best-selling collection of humorous essays by American humorist and playwright Jean Kerr about suburban living and raising four boys. The essays do not have a plot or through-storyline, but the book sold so well it was later adapted into a film starring Doris Day and David Niven. The film was later adapted into a television series starring Patricia Crowley and Mark Miller. Kerr followed up this book with two later best-selling collections, The Snake Has All the Lines and Penny Candy.


“The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.”

" Children Really are Not People http://books.google.com/books?id=TPRaAAAAMAAJ&q=%22The+average+healthy+well+adjusted+adult+gets+up+at+seven+thirty+in+the+morning+feeling+just+plain+terrible%22&pg=PA160#v=onepage," Please Don't Eat the Daisies, The Saturday Evening Post, 27 July 1957 http://books.google.com/books?id=0QkfAQAAMAAJ&q=%22The+average+healthy+well+adjusted+adult+gets+up%22+%22at+seven+thirty+in+the+morning+feeling+just+plain+terrible%22&pg=PA50#v=onepage
Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1957)

“The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old.”

"How to Get the Best of Your Children"
Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1957)

“I will read anything rather than work.”

"Introduction"
Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1957)

“Children are different—mentally, physically, spiritually, quantitatively, qualitatively; and furthermore, they're all a little bit nuts.”

" Children Really are Not People http://books.google.com/books?id=w0FnrZaKX7MC&q=%22Children+are+different+mentally+physically+spiritually+quantitatively+qualitatively+and+furthermore+they're+all+a+little+bit+nuts%22&pg=PA157#v=onepage," Please Don't Eat the Daisies, The Saturday Evening Post, 27 July 1957 http://books.google.com/books?id=0QkfAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Children+are+different+mentally+physically+spiritually+quantitatively+qualitatively+and+furthermore+they're+all+a+little+bit+nuts%22&pg=PA17#v=onepage
Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1957)

“You can't sleep until noon with the proper élan unless you have some legitimate reason for staying up until three”

parties don't count
"Introduction"
Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1957)

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