I have complained about books in which authors seem to kiss up to libraries and other authors. I don't know why it bothers me, it just does. When it doesn't seem to "fit" in with the rest of the story, it just seems like
product placement. Is it weird that a book about a talking hamster can get library-love right when so many "big time" authors get it so wrong? There is a lot of library-love in
Einstein the Class Hamster Saves the Library, I mean, it is even in the title! But this book is not a kissy-uppy deal, it seems to me. It is "ripped from the headlines" as we hear about more and more schools choosing to close their libraries or downsize them in the district, but this is just done so well. And it just seems like something that Einstein, whom we have come to know and love from his
previous books, would do. It's no secret that I love all things
Tashijan, but I really feel that my love for this book is not biased!
