A review by bookwings
The Library Book by Michael Mark, Tom Chapin

1.0

The concept and artwork of this book are quite cute and appealing, but as a children's librarian I cannot recommend a book that perpetuates librarian stereotypes. The librarian depicted in this picture book is white, has a cat companion, says "shh", checks out the child's library books, and most bizarrely asks the main character if they are "sure you want all these" books. These are all common stereotypes of what librarians do, none of which are true. Perhaps the authors should have actually visited a library to see what a modern public librarian does before writing this book.