Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: trite and dreary

I find it truly amazing that this book received so many positive reviews. The art is very good but by no means excellent. It comes across as a cartoonish and cliched portrayal of the Mexican landscape. The story is a dreary, condescending, and trite approach to its Mexican subject matter. A rip-off of the Classic poem "The House that Jack Built", its easy substitution of Mexican tools and terms, and repetitive, stilted phrases hardly render it a visionary poetic masterpiece. The verse becomes so bogged down in excess rhyming verbs, and empty descriptive words like 'beautiful' that the reading experience is like slogging through cow manure. That's before the reader attempts the smaller print on the right, which is as exciting an an encyclopedia excerpt, and a complete turn-off to children already impatient. As a pre-school teacher and mother of two young children, I found it was a grinding read that truly sapped my energy and put the kids to sleep..well before their bedtime.