We bet there's a belly laugh or two waiting for you in one of the stellar titles reviewed in today's issue. Is it in Only Big Bumbum Matters Tomorrow by Damilare Kuku, the "sharply insightful, bitingly funny, wondrously poignant" story of a woman's search for true love and acceptance through cosmetic surgery? Or perhaps it's in Beep by Bill Roorbach, the madcap adventure of a Costa Rican squirrel monkey determined to save the planet from environmental collapse, told with both humor and optimism. Or maybe "learning how the sausage is made" will have you doubled over as Philip Witte and Rex Hesner offer their savvy analysis of New Yorker-style gag cartoons in Funny Stuff. Plus, the "mischief-rich, briskly rhyming fairy tale" picture book Into the Goblin Market presents a quick-thinking farm girl contending with enchanted adversaries.
Meanwhile, in The Writer's Life, It's Elementary author Elise Bryant remembers playing Little Women with her classmates, and the YA novel that prompted her to begin writing her own.