From Publishers' Weekly, a cheat sheet to the highlights of the Fall 2014 season in children's picture books, MG, and YA.

Featuring! Quest, a followup to the very lovely wordless picture book Journey, by Aaron Becker, from Candlewick Press.

And!

A new Very Nearly Honorable League of Pirates book!

A new Septimus Heap series!

A 50th anniversary edition of The Book of Three.

From Eos and Mani, illus. by Lindsey Yankey (Simply Read Books)

And!

• The Isobel Journal, previously published in the UK by Hot Key Books, now gets a US edition
• The second in the Lockwood & Co. series, by Jonathan Stroud
• A new book from Paolo Bacigalupi
• Love Is the Drug by the author of last year's The Summer Prince, Alaya Dawn Johnson
• Cartwheeling in Thunderstorms by Katherine Rundell, whose Rooftoppers just won the Waterstones Children's Book Prize
• A new book from Scott Westerfeld

...and like a hundred more.

Basically, get excited.

I am over the moon with happiness at this lovely brief review from PW Select!

"O'Reilly delivers a fascinating novel about a group of women and girls who, in postapocalyptic New York City, belong to an Amazonian society that believes men are no longer a necessity in the world. In an effort to survive, the women—who live in a forest that now covers Manhattan—capture men to perpetuate their community, only to exterminate them when they have served their purpose. O'Reilly's characters are well drawn, and her prose straightforward and startling: "At first, and at Buffy's suggestion, the women had tried a sort of rough-and-ready castration technique that involved twine and a sharp knife, but the results were predictable: death by exsanguination." Highly original and visceral, O'Reilly's book announces itself like a newborn baby straight from the womb: with a guttural cry that abounds with possibility."