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Kes Gray.

Writer · United Kingdom · b. 1960

Kes Gray: British author of the Oi Frog! rhyming picture-book series (with Jim Field on art) and the Daisy chapter books — absurd-rhyme animal comedy and gleeful read-aloud bounce for ages 3–9.

Kes Gray is a British author born in 1960, best known for the bestselling Oi Frog! rhyming picture-book series (illustrated by Jim Field): Oi Frog!, Oi Dog!, Oi Cat!, Oi Duck-billed Platypus!, Oi Aardvark! and more. Each book runs on absurd-rhyme animal-on-X seating-chart logic, with deliberately silly word-play that lands well on read-aloud. Gray also wrote the long-running Daisy chapter-book series (Daisy and the Trouble with Zoos, …Life, …Maggots etc.), and Eat Your Peas. His voice is gleeful, child-aligned and quietly subversive, children typically love that the books treat absurd rule-fixation as a moral universe. A reliable read-aloud author for ages 3–7 (picture books) and 6–9 (Daisy).