Weekend Reviews (I)

It's time again for the Fall Children's Book section in the New York Times. Here's what's available online now:

• Gene Luen Yang reviews Shaun Tan's The Arrival. (Check out educating alice for recent Shaun Tan posts.)
• Leonard S. Marcus considers Peter Sis's The Wall.
• Bruce Handy reviews picture books about animals "who explore the world."
• J. Patrick Lewis reviews Christopher Myers's Jabberwocky.
• Sara London praises Laura Vaccaro Seeger's The Egg.
• James Hynes reviews Scott Westerfeld's Extras.
• David Lipsky considers Peter Cameron's Someday This Pain Will be Useful to You.
• Bruce Barcott reviews the Young Adult title of the season, Sherman Alexei's The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian.
• David Pogue thinks the new Star Wars pop-up, written and illustrated by Matthew Reinhart, is pretty great.
• Lisa Von Drasek reviews Adam Rex's The True Meaning of Smekday.
• Meg Wolitzer reviews Megan McDonald's new American Girl series Meet Julie.
• Dwight Garner reviews Nick Hornby's Slam. (Here's my recent review. I loved it.)
• Regina Marler considers Gregory Maguire's What-the-Dickens: The Story of a Rogue Tooth Fairy
• Rebecca Zerkin takes a look at recent fairy tale retellings
• In this season's essay, Steven Heller calls for books about a 1960s that are not cliched.
• Web Extra: "Best Illustrated Children's Books of 2007." I only agree with about 1/2 of their choices. How about you? Which titles are missing?

More later...