More Well-deserved Praise ...

I read Teaching Maggie nodding and muttering, 'Yes! Yes! That's it exactly!' Lee Reilly knows
the emperor has no clothes on, and, unlike the rest of us, isn't afraid to admit it to a child. Teaching Maggie's unique blend of wisdom and wit exemplifies the most powerful gifts an adult can give a child -- loving honesty and unconditional love.
-- Mary McGarry Morris, author of Songs in Ordinary Times (an Oprah pick).

 

...After witnessing the birth of her god-daughter -- the child of the woman who was her Stanford roommate in the early 1970s -- Reilly immediately began to write the letters in this collection, which span Maggie¹s first three years of life ... Reilly conveys the balanced vision of a wise, well-read Midwestern woman at midlife in lovely prose inflected with literary allusions and her liberal politics.... Reilly's voice is pleasant and her insights are thoughtful...begging future installments.
-- Publishers Weekly

 

...Lee Reilly's series of letters to her goddaughter read like a funny, wise guide tot he world we live in ...Cinderella should have been so lucky.
-- Nancy Willard, author of the Newbery award- winning A Visit to William Blake's Inn


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