Being my school's librarian, I now get to sort through books we get and idly skim through them when I've got a moment. Obviously, I'm not the target demographic for children's picture books.

I really don't like the story, and it's largely because I'm rarely a fan of books with stories that have a woman and man meet and get together because they share this One Whole Thing in common. These are the sorts of books I would actively keep out of my (very hypothetical) children's library because it is subtly teaching them a lesson that appears benign but isn't actually good for people that I know I grew up with and have been trying to unlearn since I was a child.

A book about a Career Burglar who decides to become a "better man" out of his own self-discovery (and not because he met the right woman) would be a far more compelling children's book.

(I don't really have an issue with the Willingly Be A Criminal Without Consequence, though that is another issue that could be had with the story because the book doesn't make a distinction about who is being burgled. Hopefully he's Robin Hooding this stuff.)