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Bunting, Eve

Riding the Tiger

32 pp. | Clarion | March, 2001 | Trade ISBN 0-395-79731-4 $$16.00
(4) K-3 Illustrated by David Frampton. When a tiger offers him a ride through his urban neighborhood, ten-year-old narrator Danny is thrilled--he doesn't foresee that the tiger will make it psychologically difficult for him to get off. Bunting's social message about gangs is obvious in this over-ambitious allegorical tale of bullying, machismo, and conformity. The prose has a poetic, free-associating quality, and the black woodcut images, set against brooding backdrops, are commanding.
Reviewer: Nell Beram

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