Capybara Update: Celeste and the Giant Hamster at Omnivoracious

I just posted a feature on Melanie Typaldos' excellent Celeste and the Giant Hamster on Omnivoracious. As I say in the feature, the chain of events that led to even knowing about this book looks something like this:

(1) A friend mentions as a joke that she wants a capybara for her birthday.

(2) This reignites my own interest in capybaras, the world's largest rodent, which leads to having a dream about capybaras.

(3) In the comments thread of the capybara dream-post, a capybara named Caplin Rous act