Maggie Smith, Author Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Books $13.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-688-09570-3
In this impressive debut, Smith conveys a familiarity with--and a fondness for--children. The story is told from the perspective of a girl who speaks in a natural, conversational voice that will immediately draw young readers into the tale of her...
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Maggie Smith, Author Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Books $13.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-688-09884-1
No one believes Frances when she insists there is a witch living in the basement, but the frightened girl knows she is there, with her wickedly pointed nose and claw-like fingers that reach menacingly through the basement stairs. Frances tries...
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Maggie Smith, Author Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Books $14 (1p) ISBN 978-0-688-10663-8
Smith here infuses her words and pictures with the same capricious imagination she displayed in There's a Witch Under the Stairs , and the result is a similarly refreshing work. The story starts off realistically: Alex explains how much he likes...
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Maggie Smith, Author Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Books $15 (32p) ISBN 978-0-688-12052-8
Argo, a white dog with black ears and tail, brings home a ticket he sees on the sidewalk; while his owners are away on a business trip, he discovers that it's a winner. ``Argo's fortune arrived in seventeen ten-pound sacks,'' writes Smith ( There's...
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Maggie Smith. Clarion, $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-547-55861-5
A new sibling, the child-grandmother bond, attachment to a stuffed animal, and the rewards of crafting all play into Smith’s (Pigs in Pajamas) cheering, if slightly saccharine story. When the young narrator learns that a baby will soon join the...
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Maggie Smith, Author, Maggie Smith, Illustrator Crown Publishers $14.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-517-80072-0
Bound to lift the spirits of any bedridden child, Smith's (There's a Witch Under the Stairs) upbeat tale is a get-well card in book form. Peter, wearing a safari hat, pulls a wagon filled with stuffed animals to his next-door neighbor Daisy's house.
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Ann Whitford Paul, Author, Maggie Smith, Author, Maggie Smith, Illustrator DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) $15.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-7894-2511-9
Asked to pack for even the briefest excursion, children invariably put in everything but the kitchen sink--a proclivity that Paul (Hello Toes! Hello Feet!) and Smith (Counting Our Way to Maine) capitalize on with inexhaustible exuberance. Arriving...
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Maggie Smith, Author, Maggie Smith, Illustrator . Dell/Dragonfly $6.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-440-41757-6
Smith combines a counting lesson with the days of the week as a boy cheers his neighbor, who's housebound with the chicken pox. "This upbeat tale is a get-well card in book form," said PW. Ages 2-6. (May)
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Maggie Smith, Author, Maggie Smith, Illustrator, Nancy Siscoe, Editor Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers $14.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-375-81056-5
In Smith's (Dear Daisy: Get Well Soon) affecting tribute to Dexter, a beloved pet, a girl narrator unspools ""Desser's"" history while weaving in family stories, such as her own arrival as a newborn (""When I first came home from the hospital,...
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Maggie Smith. Tupelo, $16.95 trade paper (114p) ISBN 978-1-946482-01-3
In this collection titled for a poem that became an unlikely viral sensation, Smith follows The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison by exploring the sensorium mothers and children share in a place where “deer still find their way to the backyard.”...
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Maggie Smith. Atria, $24 (256p) ISBN 978-1-982132-07-1
Poet Smith (Good Bones) reflects on loss, beauty, and transformation in a thoughtful but not entirely satisfying collection. The slight volume compiles inspirational tweets—all concluding with the admonition to “keep moving”—that Smith began writing
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Maggie Smith. One Signal, $20 (128p) ISBN 978-1-982185-06-0
Smith (Good Bones) continues to explore her major subjects—America, grief, and her role as a mother—in her rewarding fourth collection, finding ways to celebrate the concrete and everyday while mourning violence and heartache, and weaving humor and...
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Maggie Smith. One Signal, $28.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-98218-585-5
Poet Smith (Goldenrod) eschews the traditional memoir format in this mixed take on her recent divorce and its aftermath. “I’ve wondered if I can even call this book a memoir,” she writes. “It’s not something that happened in the past that I’m...
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Edited by Wendy and Tyler Chin-Tanner. Wave Blue World, $16.99 trade paper (200p) ISBN 978-1-949518-13-9
This ambitious anthology of feminist comics poetry aims high, and soars in some selections. Each chapter opens with a short comic, which interprets a poem, which is replicated as original text following the comic. Every talent assembled, from the...
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Maggie Smith, illus. by Leanne Hatch. HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray, $19.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-321458-3
How can one handle worries that crowd sleep out of the mind, asks poet Smith (The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison, for adults) in a metaphor-filled picture book debut. As a pale-skinned child with a furrowed brow looks up at their red-bathrobed mother,
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