Title: Trash
Product review: I knew there was an upcoming book about Barbaro written for children, and when I got this book I thought this was the one: it seems to have been written at a fourth-grade reading level. However, even a child would find the captions ("...Relaxation, Barbaro says, is important too") condescending.The book is only 187 pages long, including the glossary and hastily-appended epilogue, and those pages include no less than 18 pages made up solely of posts from the UPenn website, a six-page chart to show that only 47 of 132 betting favorites have won the Derby, and eight pages made up of reprints of New Bolton Center updates. In other words, a rehash of primary sources.While the authors may have meant well, this book represents an appalling level of cynicism on the part of the publisher. Barbaro, his connections, and his fans deserve better.
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