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A Ball for Daisy is a children's picture book by American author and illustrator Chris Raschka. A Ball for Daisy was published by Random House in 2011. Raschka won the 2012 Caldecott Medal for his illustrations in the book.

Description
A Ball for Daisy is a small format book measuring 9.9 by 10.2 inches (25 cm x 25.9 cm).

A Ball for Daisy received favorable reviews including School Library Journal describing it as "capturing the essence of situations that are deeply felt by children" and "could not be more moving" and Kirkus Reviews found the illustrations to be "drawn with such utter, winning simplicity"

Author
Over fifty books have been illustrated by Chris Raschka. He has not only illustrated children's books for other authors but also illustrated his own books. Raschka's illustrating technique uses oil or crayon to visually amuse the audience/reader. He uses many different and vibrant colors to capture the story.

Plot
A white dog who's name is Daisy has a favorite ball. Daisy is so obsessed with the ball that she takes it everywhere with her, sleeps with it and overall has to be near it constantly. As the owner takes Daisy out for a walk one day, her ball gets snatched by a bigger brown dog wanting to play. Daisy tried her hardest to get the ball back, but the other dog insisted on playing with it and accidentally pops it. Daisy's owner then throws the ball in the trash and takes Daisy home. For a while Daisy acts distraught over her loss. Later, Daisy's owner takes her for another walk and on the walk they see the same dog that popped Daisy's ball but this time that dog has a shiny new blue ball. The other dog gives the blue ball to Daisy, which makes her very happy.