In the Wild

Illustrated by Magenta Fox
Acclaimed authors Zadie Smith and Nick Laird are back with a brand-new picture book about conquering new experiences and enjoying the great outdoors!

Maud is Kit's beloved guinea pig and they do everything together. But when Kit gets a packing list for her upcoming camping trip, she's nervous about leaving home. She's never slept in the forest before! Maud is just as worried. Who will Kit hug if she gets lonely? So Maud decides to go with her—after all, an adventure is better with friends!

The great outdoors is full of surprises, including a mysterious spiky creature Maud isn't sure what to make of at first. Both she and Kit take big steps outside of their comfort zones—and discover that the wild outdoors can be just as magical as the cozy indoors.
© Ben Bailey-Smith
Zadie Smith is the author of the novels White Teeth, The Autograph Man, On Beauty, NW and Swing Time; as well as a novella, The Embassy of Cambodia; three collections of essays, Changing My Mind, Feel Free and Intimations; a collection of short stories, Grand Union; and the play, The Wife of Willesden, adapted from Chaucer. She is also the editor of The Book of Other People. Zadie Smith was born in north-west London, where she still lives. View titles by Zadie Smith
Nick Laird was born in Northern Ireland and studied at Cambridge University. He has published two novels, Utterly Monkey and Glover’s Mistake, and three collections of poetry, To a Fault, On Purpose, and Go Giants. He is the recipient of many awards for his fiction and poetry, including the Betty Trask Prize, the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, and the Somerset Maugham Award. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a 2016 Guggenheim Fellow, he teaches at Columbia University in New York. View titles by Nick Laird
Magenta Fox was born in southwest London in 1994. She studied English at the University of Exeter and since moving back to London in 2015, has been working as a children's book designer. These days she works freelance—illustrating, writing, and designing children's books from her flat in south London. View titles by Magenta Fox

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Acclaimed authors Zadie Smith and Nick Laird are back with a brand-new picture book about conquering new experiences and enjoying the great outdoors!

Maud is Kit's beloved guinea pig and they do everything together. But when Kit gets a packing list for her upcoming camping trip, she's nervous about leaving home. She's never slept in the forest before! Maud is just as worried. Who will Kit hug if she gets lonely? So Maud decides to go with her—after all, an adventure is better with friends!

The great outdoors is full of surprises, including a mysterious spiky creature Maud isn't sure what to make of at first. Both she and Kit take big steps outside of their comfort zones—and discover that the wild outdoors can be just as magical as the cozy indoors.

Author

© Ben Bailey-Smith
Zadie Smith is the author of the novels White Teeth, The Autograph Man, On Beauty, NW and Swing Time; as well as a novella, The Embassy of Cambodia; three collections of essays, Changing My Mind, Feel Free and Intimations; a collection of short stories, Grand Union; and the play, The Wife of Willesden, adapted from Chaucer. She is also the editor of The Book of Other People. Zadie Smith was born in north-west London, where she still lives. View titles by Zadie Smith
Nick Laird was born in Northern Ireland and studied at Cambridge University. He has published two novels, Utterly Monkey and Glover’s Mistake, and three collections of poetry, To a Fault, On Purpose, and Go Giants. He is the recipient of many awards for his fiction and poetry, including the Betty Trask Prize, the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, and the Somerset Maugham Award. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a 2016 Guggenheim Fellow, he teaches at Columbia University in New York. View titles by Nick Laird
Magenta Fox was born in southwest London in 1994. She studied English at the University of Exeter and since moving back to London in 2015, has been working as a children's book designer. These days she works freelance—illustrating, writing, and designing children's books from her flat in south London. View titles by Magenta Fox

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