Review of the Day: New In Town by Kevin Cornell

New In Town
By Kevin Cornell
Farrar, Straus & Giroux (an imprint of Macmillan)
ISBN: 9780374306090
$18.99
On shelves September 7th

You can’t read children’s literature while constantly looking for the elements you prefer in your adult literature. I mean, you can do it, but you’ll almost always be disappointed. Still, grown-ups just love it when a picture book makes a sly allusion only they might get, or tries on a narrative technique they think is slick. I’m not blameless here. I love a clever bit...