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librarianryan 's review for:
Tilly and Tank
by Jay Fleck
I officially hate this book. Yes I actually hate this book. It's about an elephant who tries to make friends with a tank. The tank responds by firing. I don’t care that at the end they become friends. The tank shot at the elephant. I realize this is supposed to be an allegory about finding common ground, or knowing who your friends are, but to this reader all I see is war mongering. Shooting before knowledge. We have enough of that in our world today that I do NOT need it in a children’s book. And the graphics where you are looking through the eyepiece target identifier of the tank. Horrible. Just flat out sad. It glorifies violence, or at lease says violence is okay. Not in this house.