I am an avid reader of Publisher's Weekly. I am always excited when one of my favorite books/series is reviewed. But then I am often times disappointed when the reviewer is not a fan like I am.
The Otis series of books are fantastic. They are a huge hit, not just in my house, but with my all my little people at school. I know I've got a group of kids hooked when I read Otis and the Tornado. You could give me the rowdiest, sugared up, just had PE group of 5 and 6 year olds and I will have them riveted with that book. They love it! A tornado? Animals in danger? They are totally on board.
I've been pumping up the Scholastic Book Fair for the past few weeks and pumping up the release of the newest Otis book, An Otis Christmas, which will be released on Oct. 22. So with all this hype and love for Otis at my school I was very disappointed to see the following review in PW.
"Otis the tractor returns in a grim holiday story with odd allusions to the Nativity Story."
Ouch! That hurts. I'll have to read it my self first to decide how "grim" the story is and to interpret for myself the "odd allusions" to the Nativity Story.
I understand the pressure that series authors are under to produce a holiday story, but do we have to end up with something crappy just to sell an extra book for the holidays? I've seen it happen with other beloved characters. Just look what has happened to Pinkalicious.
I'm still holding out hope that this will be a decent story and that I will be able to proudly read it to my kids in December and have them love it just like all the other Otis books.
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