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Tricycle

"Margarita lives in a mansion. When she climbs her favorite tree, she can look down into the beautiful garden below. She can also see the small house next door where her friend Rosario and her family live. One day she sees Rosario and her brother dragging her tricycle into their yard and hiding it u...

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Main Author: Amado, Elisa
Other Authors: Ruano, Alfonso
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Toronto : Groundwood Books, c2007.
Subjects:
Poor families > Juvenile fiction.
Compassion > Juvenile fiction.
Picture books for children.
Friendship > Juvenile fiction.
Truthfulness and falsehood > Juvenile fiction.
Honesty > Juvenile fiction.
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Summary:"Margarita lives in a mansion. When she climbs her favorite tree, she can look down into the beautiful garden below. She can also see the small house next door where her friend Rosario and her family live. One day she sees Rosario and her brother dragging her tricycle into their yard and hiding it under a pile of boxes. Margarita decides to lie and protect her friends, but is she really helping them?"--amazon.com
Physical Description:32 p. : col. ill. ; 21 x 24 cm.
ISBN:9780888996145
0888996144
Author Notes:Elisa Amado is a Guatemalan-born author and translator who once flew one of the barriletes of Santiago. She has writtenCousins (Primas)andTricycle (El triciclo), which is on the Américas Award Commended List and is a USBBY Outstanding International Book. Her most recent book,What Are You Doing?(illustrated by Manuel Monroy), has received stellar reviews. She lives in Toronto, Ontario.

Alfonso Ruano is the illustrator of the award-winningThe Compositionand is the art director for Grupo SM, the world's largest publisher of Spanish-language children's books. He lives in Madrid, Spain.


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