- Bruce Handy reviews Kevin Henkes latest book, A Good Day. Handy begins the review with this simple statement: "It should be said: Kevin Henkes is a genius." Agreed.
- Sarah Boxer reviews jazz-themed picture books
- Robert Coontz considers recent books on global warming and hurricanes (including the Al Gore book)
- Joanna Rudge Long reviews new poetry books, including many of my recent favorites--The Barefoot Book of Classic Poems, Ted Hughes' Collected Poems for Children, and Animal Poems.
- Ann Hodgeman takes a look at The Lost Files of Nancy Drew
- (The) John Green reviews Chris Raschka's The Purple Balloon
- Elizabeth Deveraux reviews Mal Peet's Tamar, a book I desperately want to read.
- J.D. Biersdorfer reads Sabuda and Reinhart's latest creation, Encyclopedia Prehistorica: Mega-Beasts
- Amy Krouse Rosenthal loves How to Be a Baby...by Me, the Big Sister
- In the note-to-self department: Remember to read the boxes too! (The) Ned Vizzini reviews Gene Luen Yang's American Born Chinese and Stuck in the Middle: 17 Comics From an Unpleasant Age, edited by Ariel Schrag
And, for you podcast fans, Julie Just talks children's books in this week's NYT Book Review Podcast.
More later this evening...