Come join Maple on her adventure to find the finest ingredients in all the land Children's book about a lady bug baker who has to go on an adventure to find the perfect ingredients for a princesses birthday.

Lively and varied, Melinda Smith's first collection rushes the reader headlong through love, grief, outrage, takoyaki, alienation and football. Melinda's other books include Mapless in Underland and First...Then..

Mapless in Underland brings more of Melinda Smith's fresh, surprising poems, deliberately accessible yet intensely thought-provoking. Praise for the poem 'Bride and Best Man discuss arrangements', published in this collection: 'Melinda Smith captures the danger and desire of an illicit relationship "with sidelong ripple-whispers and the light but tidal tug of Truth or Dare." Dream world, real world...the poem's rhymes flow from line to line as seamlessly as wavelets on a sandy shore.' - Susan Steggall, Introduction to Sharing a Landscape: a celebration of difference (Society of Women Writers...