Spoiler alert: This tall and narrow book has the most surprising ending! A knight carrying a shield and a sword approaches a horse and they seem to jump over a tall mountain range. The valiant knight and his noble horse then gallop along the ground as a menacing flock of birds travel overhead. They return to the sky as a terrifying pit of snakes is below them. They continue in this manner, up and down, over and under various threats, but remain unscathed. The horse stops moving, and the knight looks puzzled for a moment, then turns sad. A giant pair of arms reach down and the face of the knight's father appears. He begins to cry, and on the final page the reader realizes that despite all of the allusions to European legends, the knight is really just a boy riding a carousel horse!
This book was honored by the International Youth Library in its 2014 White Ravens catalogue.
Bárbaro [Barbarian] by Renato Moriconi. Brazil: Companhia das Letrinhas, 2013. [9788574065748]
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