Books by Kim Smith

John Hughes wrote the story and screenplays for Home Alone and Home Alone 2. He also wrote and directed many popular films for teenagers and adults, including The Breakfast Club and Ferris Bueller s Day Off. Chris Columbus directed Home Alone and Home Alone 2 as well as many other celebrated family films, including Mrs. Doubtfire and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer s Stone. Kim Smith is the illustrator behind the Quirk Books Pop Classics series, including Home Alone (Quirk Books, 2015), The X-Files: Earth Children Are Weird (Quirk Books, 2017), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (Quirk Books, 2017), Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Quirk Books, 2018), and The Karate Kid(Quirk Books, 2019). She has illustrated several other children s books, including The Great Puppy Invasion (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017) and Builder Brothers: Big Plans(HarperCollins, 2018). Kim lives in Calgary, Alberta, with her dog, Whisky, and husband, Eric. Visit her online at kimillustration.com. Author Residence: Calgary, Alberta