Training Day: El Toro & Friends: A Graphic Novel (World of ¡vamos!) - Hardcover

Third, Raul The

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0358380383 ISBN 13: 9780358380382

Publisher: Versify, 2021

Synopsis

"Bursting with imagination and creativity! Your kids will go loco for El Toro!" —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, Training Day finds El Toro preparing for his wrestling match in Spanish and English in this graphic-novel-style El Toro & Friends paper-over-board reader from the Eisner-nominated World of ¡Vamos!

Little Lobo introduced readers to his wrestling hero El Toro in ¡Vamos! Let’s Go to the Market! Now El Toro is off on his own adventures in this early reader graphic novel series!

Getting out of bed isn''t always easy, especially for Mexican wrestling star El Toro. But his coach, Kooky Dooky, knows that it’s important for the wrestler to stay in shape and keep training—even when he doesn''t feel like it.

Can Kooky Dooky raise El Toro’s spirits and get him to practice before his next big wrestling match?

With unique, detailed illustrations and easy Spanish and English vocabulary words, sports fans and comic book fans alike will fall in love with El Toro on his training day adventures in this fun early reader graphic novel.

For more from El Toro and Friends, check out Tag Team, Team Up, and Tacos Today!

About this title

About the Authors

Raúl the Third is the New York Times bestselling, three-time Pura Belpré Award-winning author-illustrator of ¡Vamos! Let's Go to the Market, ¡Vamos! Let's Go Eat, ¡Vamos! Let's Cross the Bridge, and the rest of the World of ¡Vamos! He illustrated Schneider Family Book Award honoree Stuntboy, in the Meantime, by Jason Reynolds, and the Lowriders series, by Cathy Camper. Raúl was born in Texas and grew up going back and forth between El Paso and Ciudad Juárez, México. He now lives in Medford, Massachusetts, with his New York Times bestselling collaborator, Elaine Bay, and their son, Raúl the Fourth.

Elaine Bay is the New York Times bestselling colorist for ¡Vamos! Let's Go to the Market, ¡Vamos! Let's Go Eat, ¡Vamos! Let's Cross the Bridge, and the rest of the Pura Belpré Award-winning World of ¡Vamos! She is also the colorist for Schneider Family Book Award Honoree Stuntboy, in the Meantime, written by Jason Reynolds and illustrated by her New York Times bestselling collaborator, Raúl the Third. Elaine grew up in El Paso, Texas. A printmaker, graphic designer, video artist, and performance artist, she now lives in Medford, Massachusetts, with Raúl the Third and their son, Raúl the Fourth.

Edition details

• Publisher: Versify
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0358380383
• ISBN 13: 9780358380382
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Bay Elaine, Third Raul The
• Number of pages: 56