Training Day

In typical !Vamos! style, a vibrant world bursts to life on every page, filled with movement and a detailed host of cartoon characters, though text and images are simplified to accommodate beginning readers. Raul offers a lesson in visual literacy, utilizing speech bubbles and panels in addition to traditional narration. --Booklist, STARRED review A generous touch of giddy surrealism continues to make Raul the Third's faunal milieu a destination, lovingly detailed in frenetic compositions and Bay's SweeTart-hued digital colorization. Exercise and toilet cleaning are rarely this much fun. --The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, STARRED review 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....This pizzazz echoes throughout the chillante palette of matte violet, teal, and orange hues, animating the dynamic motion lines in comic-book-style drawings, rewarding attentive eyes and ears with endless detail and inside jokes. --The Horn Book, STARRED review As in the World of !Vamos! books, the creator, alongside colorist Elaine Bay, utilizes comics-style layouts and an eye-catching, lightly faded color palette.... lively banter and humorous illustrations make for an absorbing early reader. --Publishers Weekly The unstoppable Raul the Third brings his border barrio to rip-roaring life with plenty of humor, embedded Spanish, and Chicano cultural references.... Comic-book and lucha libre fans alike will not tap out of this semibilingual smackdown. --Kirkus -- Bursting with imagination and creativity! Your kids will go loco for El Toro! -- Bursting with imagination and creativity! Your kids will go loco for El Toro! -- Jeff Kinney, author of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series