Tacos Today: El Toro Friends [Hardcover]

An Eisner Award Nominee!

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An ALA Best Graphic Novels for Children Selection

A Children’s Book Council Children’s Favorite

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A Children’s Book Council Teacher Favorite

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

FromNew York Timesbestselling, three-time Pura Belpré Award–winning author-illustrator Raúl the Third,Tacos Todayfollows 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.

“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

“[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.” -Schol³3