BookSense Picks: Children's Autumn 2006...

I just found the latest BookSense list in my inbox. Here's a quick not-very-specific-and-incomplete rundown of what's on it. (Follow the list link to read full titles):

• Four Monster books
• Lots of animals: Dog, Cow, Giraffe, Gecko, Hippo, Hare, Rabbit and Pig
• Animal Poems and Dog Poems
• Pirates
• Goth Girl, Good Girls, That Girl Lucy Moon
• Dragons (and lots of fantasy)
• Ranger's Apprentice, Last Apprentice, Last Dragon
• Books that are part of trilogies and series
• How to Be Popular, How It's Done
• A reinvention and a new version of Alice in Wonderland (both of which I will buy because I dig all things Alice in Wonderland)
• New books by Gail Carson Levine, Edward Bloor, Elise Primavera, David Wiesner, Maurice Sendak, Denise Fleming, Patricia MacLachlan and Ian Falconer among others

Non-Alice-in-Wonderland-related books on the list I'm going to add to the stack next to my bed as soon as Wednesday (because I will be at a bookstore that day):

• Shug, by Jenny Han
• Saint Iggy, by K.L. Going
• The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl, by Barry Lyga

Book on the list Murray (the little book lover I gave birth to) would like most:

• Frankenstien Makes a Sandwich, by Adam Rex