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Tricyle
by Elisa Amado
A bluntly realistic story about social differences through a child's eyes.
Elisa Amado’s Tricyle tells an important story, revealing a cultural eye opener about the differences between the rich and the poor—all through the eyes of a young girl.
Tricyle’s protagonist, a young girl named Margarita lives in a large estate surrounded by a large hedge. One of her favorite pastimes is to climb a large tree overseeing everything that goes on below, especially a beautiful garden she likes. Margarita can even see the other side of the hedge and the small shacks next door where her friend Rosario and her family live. But one day Margarita is up in her tree again when she sees Rosario and her brother taking Margarita’s tricycle into their yard and Margarita’s views of the world changes.
This children’s book is certainly an interesting one. Traits that make children’s books great—such as a fun quality, cuteness, a touching story, etc.—lacks greatly in Tricyle. Sure, the book tells an important story. It is not to say that children should have everything portrayed with rose colored glasses; however, the extent of the realism to the story may be too much for the intended age group.
Not only does Tricyle contains blunt [racial] prejudices that young children do not need to be exposed to, but the story itself is a bit lacking. The story has everything going on too quickly and does not even have a quality ending to it.
Title: Tricyle
Author: Elisa Amado
Publisher: Groundwood Books
ISBN: 0888996144
Review written by: Veronica Nguyen
Reviewer's Rating:6.5
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