Cheryl Landrieu, Johnette Downing, and Sheila Cork

This week on The Reading Life, New Orleans First Lady Cheryl Landrieu, who'll be hosting the third annual Children's Book Festival October 20 at Latter Library.

We'll also talk with musician and children's book author Johnette Downing, whose new CD is Reading Rocks and whose new book is Why the Possum Has a Large Grin, and Sheila Cork, the librarian at the New Orleans Museum of Art.