Tacos Today (El Toro & Friends)

by Raúl the Third (Author)

Reading Level: 2nd − 3rd Grade

"Outrageously creative! Kids will drink in every imaginative detail in El Toro's wild world!" --Jeff Kinney, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series

From New York Times bestselling, three-time Pura Belpré Award-winning author-illustrator Raúl the Third, Tacos Today follows the young luchadores on the hunt for their favorite lunch in an action-packed, graphic-novel-style El Toro & Friends paper-over-board reader from the Eisner-nominated World of ¡Vamos!

It's lunchtime for young El Toro and his friends--and each one is looking forward to a different kind of taco, their favorite! The luchadores take a break from their training and head into town to eat. When they count their lunch money and discover they don't have enough for tacos, they will have to work together on a creative, fun solution to earn plenty of dinero for a delicious all-you-can-eat spectacular! Flavored with Spanish phrases and topped with plenty of humor, this early reader graphic novel is essential for those who want an action-packed story and lots of laughs.

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Review quotes

Outrageously creative! Kids will drink in every imaginative detail in El Toro's wild world! — Jeff Kinney, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series

In typical ¡Vamos! style, a vibrant world bursts to life on every page, filled with movement and a detailed host of cartoon characters... Raúl offers a lesson in visual literacy, utilizing speech bubbles and panels in addition to traditional narration. — Booklist (starred review) for Tag Team and Training Day

Simple sentences and recognizable—yet entirely fresh and original—plot structures set up young readers for accomplishment. Visual and linguistic whirls and twirls match the fast-paced tempo of lucha libre, serving up dazzling Chicano English. — Horn Book (starred review) for Tag Team and Training Day

Providing bilingual and bilingual-wannabe audiences with easy reader materials that reflect and promote conversational and reading flexibility... with phrases sometimes translated within the text, sometimes understandable through visual context clues, and often delightfully left for readers to puzzle out on their own. — Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (starred review) for Tag Team and Training Day

[A] vibrant comic book-style world... Clear outlines, lively pastel colors and easy-to-read text—which identifies Spanish sentences in purple font—provide an atmosphere full of action. — School Library Journal (starred review) for Team Up

Raúl the Third
Raúl the Third is a Pura Belpré Award-winning illustrator and the author/illustrator of Vamos! Let's Go to the Market. He is also the illustrator for the Lowriders in Space series by Cathy Camper and is currently working on a YA graphic novel with David Bowles. He grew up between El Paso, TX and Ciudad Juárez, México and now lives in Boston, MA with colorist Elaine Bay. Visit him at www.artbyraul.com, on Twitter: @raulthe3rd and on Instagram: @raulthethird.info
Classification
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780358539377
Lexile Measure
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Guided Reading Level
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Publisher
Versify
Publication date
March 20, 2023
Series
El Toro and Friends
BISAC categories
JUV023000 - Juvenile Fiction | Lifestyles | City & Town Life
JUV002000 - Juvenile Fiction | Animals | General
JUV043000 - Juvenile Fiction | Readers | Beginner
JUV050000 - Juvenile Fiction | Cooking & Food
JUV009080 - Juvenile Fiction | Concepts | Words
JUV011030 - Juvenile Fiction | People & Places | United States - Hispanic & Latino
JUV032160 - Juvenile Fiction | Sports & Recreation | Wrestling
JUV008110 - Juvenile Fiction | Comics & Graphic Novels | Humorous
JUV074000 - Juvenile Fiction | Diversity & Multicultural
Library of Congress categories
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