This weekend sees several reviews of children's books in the New York Times...
- Jessica Bruder reviews Comets, Stars, the Moon, and Mars: Space Poems and Paintings, by Douglas Florian
- Regina Marler considers Dale Peck's The Lost Cities: A Drift House Voyage
- John Green reviews Laurie Halse Andreson's Twisted
- Krystyna Poray Goddu reviews Different Like Coco, by Elizabeth Matthews
Kathryn Hughes reviews Philip Reeves Here Lies Arthur for the Guardian. (More brilliants, etc. In less than a month I'll be in the U.K. Here Lies Arthur and Helen Dunmore's The Deep will be the first books I'm picking up, maybe even at the airport.)
Elizabeth Ward reviews books for children ages 5-10 (Middle Readers), including:
- Once Upon a Full Moon, by Elizabeth Quan
- Jeremy the Wonderer, by Nancy Bonduranat
- Violet Bing and the Big House, by Jennifer Paros
- Stink and the World's Super-Stinky Sneakers, by Megan McDonald
Mary Harris Russell considers five new books for the Chicago Tribune, including:
- The Linden Tree, by Ellie Mathews
- Wildly Romantic: The English Romantic Poets--the Mad, the Bad, and the Dangerous, by Catherine M. Andronik
- Dogs and Cats, by Steve Jenkins
- Violet Bing and the Grand House, by Jennifer Paros
- From Dawn to Dreams: Poems for Busy Babies, by Peggy Archer, illustrated by Hanako Wakiyama
More tomorrow...
