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Illustrated · ages 9–12
Coming soon · 22 Oct 2026

The Unfamous Diaries of Daisy Brewster: The Superstars

The Superstars

Written by Jenny Valentine · Illustrated by Hannah McCaffery

Book 3 in The Unfamous Diaries of Daisy BrewsterView the full series

The third doodle-filled instalment of Daisy Brewster's diary, as ordinary Daisy keeps navigating school, family and life alongside her Hollywood-famous cousin Maxxy.

  • Best for9–12
  • FormatIllustrated
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The vibe

What it’s like.

Style

  • Comedic
  • Conversational
  • Epistolary

Tone

  • Funny
  • Warm
  • Irreverent

Themes

On the pagecelebrity, friendship drama, school life, sibling relationships

Experience meters

Energy4/ 5
Humour5/ 5
Scariness1/ 5
Peril1/ 5
Wonder2/ 5
Cosiness3/ 5
Emotional intensity2/ 5
Conceptual intensity2/ 5

What’s it about?

The story.

Daisy Brewster is back for a third funny, doodle-stuffed diary. Still living in the shadow of her super-celebrity cousin Maxxy Bloom, Daisy keeps juggling school, family chaos, friendship ups and downs and her own very unfamous ambitions, all in her trademark list-making, aside-throwing voice. Written entirely as Daisy's illustrated diary, this continues the sparkling series for fans of Lottie Brooks and Dork Diaries, mixing laugh-out-loud comedy about fame and frenemies with a warm, grounded heart. A perfect next helping for readers who have followed Daisy from The Frenemies onward.

Fit check

Right for your child?

Where it lands by age

A 9-12 independent read continuing the series' short, doodle-rich diary entries. Accessible for confident younger readers and satisfying for tweens who have followed Daisy's story. Shares well from about 8.

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  • Best fit · 9–12
  • Read aloud · 8–11
  • Independent · 9–12

Prose load

Light

Visual support

Moderate

Reluctant-reader friendly

Very

Read-aloud quality

Workable

Works well for

  • Reading together
  • Reluctant readers
Low sensitivityNo content warnings

Nothing in the book is likely to concern most parents. Safe to recommend without preview.

Bedtime suitability

3 / 5 · Workable

Sensitive-child

4 / 5 · Good fit

Graphic intensity

1 / 5 · None

Best for

  • Funny diary
  • Reluctant readers
  • Friendship
  • School stories

Avoid if

  • Wants high stakes adventure

Particularly good for children who are…

  • Making friends

Why it lands

Why they love it.

Why kids love it

The doodles, lists and dry asides keep coming as Daisy handles school, family and her impossibly famous cousin. Fans who love spending time in Daisy's head get another big, funny helping.

  • Friendship and belonging
  • Proving yourself
  • Being understood finally

Why parents love it

More of the fast, illustrated diary format reluctant readers love, with the series' gentle steer toward self-worth and real friendship over fame. Easy to hand over once your reader is hooked on Daisy.

  • Shared humour
  • Quick to read

In the series

The Unfamous Diaries of Daisy Brewster.

3 books · open the series →

About the creators

About the creators.

JV

Jenny Valentine

Writer · United Kingdom · b. 1970

Jenny Valentine is a British writer born in 1970, best known as a Guardian Children's Fiction Prize-winning author of fiction for older children and teenagers, whose debut Finding Violet Park announced a warm, sharply funny voice. In the corpus she turns that voice to younger comedy with The Unfamous Diaries of Daisy Brewster, a doodle-packed diary series in the Dork Diaries and Lottie Brooks mould. Ordinary Daisy has to share her decidedly unfamous life with Maxxy, her Hollywood child-star cousin, and across The Frenemies, The Drama Queens and The Superstars discovers the real girl behind the million followers. Told entirely as Daisy's list-strewn, aside-throwing diary, the books wrap laugh-out-loud jokes about fame and frenemies around a grounded, good-hearted story about staying true to yourself.

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HM

Hannah McCaffery

Illustrator · United Kingdom

Hannah McCaffery is a children's illustrator from a small seaside town in North Wales, working digitally with a soft spot for tiny details and silliness. She graduated in illustration for children's publishing and has worked both in-house and freelance before turning to illustrated fiction. Her most visible work is The Unfamous Diaries of Daisy Brewster, Jenny Valentine's comic diary series about ordinary Daisy and her Hollywood-famous cousin Maxxy, which she stuffs with doodles, lists and laugh-out-loud asides in the doodled-diary tradition of Dork Diaries and Lottie Brooks. Her line is loose, funny and expressive, giving the diary format its scrapbook energy and making the pages feel handmade by the narrator herself. A good fit for confident younger readers who love a diary they can pore over as much as read.

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