DIM SUM PALACE, by X. Fang. (Tundra, $18.99, ages 3 to 7.) In this sumptuous homage to Maurice Sendak’s “In the Night Kitchen” by a Taiwanese American author-illustrator, a dreaming young girl follows a “delicious smell” out of her bedroom to a palace kitchen, falls into a bowl of dumpling filling and narrowly escapes being fed to an empress.
GOTTA GO! by Frank Viva. (TOON Books, $18.99, ages 5 to 7.) Against a motif of spreading yellow-orange watercolor blots, a boy and his grampa dance the Tinkle Twist, the Wee-wee Walk, the Pee-pee Hop, the Piddle Patter and the Leaky Shake in a frenetic tour de force that gives new meaning to “Ooooh…” and “Ahhh…”
KIN: Rooted in Hope, by Carole Boston Weatherford. Illustrated by Jeffery Boston Weatherford. (Atheneum, $18.99, ages 10 and up.) Pairing poetry and scratchboard art, this powerful mother-son project features multiple narrators — from members of their family tree to a plantation house to the land itself.
THE MONA LISA VANISHES: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity, by Nicholas Day. Illustrated by Brett Helquist. (Random House Studio, $19.99, ages 10 and up.) A veritable rogues’ gallery of suspects star in this witty thriller about the theft of the painting from the Louvre in 1911.
WANDERING THROUGH LIFE: A Memoir, by Donna Leon. (Atlantic Monthly, $26.) The author of the Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery series opens up about her early life in New Jersey, teaching English in Iran during the 1979 revolution and her affinity for Italy.
A DICTATOR CALLS, by Ismail Kadare. Translated by John Hodgson. (Counterpoint, paperback, $16.95.) In this novel, Kadare draws on historical research to explore, in 13 perspectives, the aftermath of a tense 1934 phone call between Joseph Stalin and the writer Boris Pasternak after the arrest of a dissident poet.
YOUR FACE BELONGS TO US: A Secretive Startup’s Quest to End Privacy as We Know It, by Kashmir Hill. (Random House, $28.99.) A Times reporter charts the rise of Clearview AI, a powerful facial recognition app, and the dangers posed by its advancing technology.
LOVED AND MISSED, by Susie Boyt. (New York Review Books, paperback, $17.95.) Boyt’s seventh novel probes how love can be misdirected, following a schoolteacher in London who finds hope and meaning in raising her granddaughter after becoming estranged from a daughter struggling with addiction.
