Please Don't Eat the Daisies

Please Don't Eat the Daisies (New York: Doubleday, 1957) is a best-selling collection of humorous essays by American humorist and playwright Jean Kerr about suburban living and raising four boys.

One of the principal sources for the later film, this essay tells how Kerr and her husband acquired their house in Larchmont, New York, complete with gargoyles, secret panels, and a 24-bell carillon that played the duet from Carmen at noon.

[2] Kirkus Reviews notedFunny and refreshing, her maternal moments will find a sympathetic hysteria among others bedeviled by strident striplings and a perfect antidote toward accepted currently child raising programs: her take-offs, of Sagan, in Don Brown's Body, and her incisive words on writers (like E. B.

White – leve majesti indeed) who move to the country – these are gifted and good.Each short piece, from the introduction to the index, is loaded with laugh-out-loud-remarks, situations and ideas.

It starred Doris Day, David Niven, Janis Paige, Spring Byington, Richard Haydn, Patsy Kelly, and Jack Weston.

Meanwhile, a search for a new home for the family — who ultimately settle in the fictional rural town of Hooton — leaves Kate dealing with the kids, carpenters, decorators, and the new neighbors by herself.