Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Didactic and manipulative

I enjoyed Kate DiCamillo's earlier books but this one was a disappointment from the beginning to the end -- I had to force myself to finish it. The arch old-fashioned tone is stilted and self-conscious. The heavy-handed message about opening one's heart to love belongs in a sermon, not a children's book. Worst of all was the moment when the rabbit is "crucified" on a wooden cross and taken down to be "saved." I felt angry and manipulated as a reader. Ms. DiCamillo can do better and children deserve more than this sentimental, clumsy parable.