Training Day: El Toro & Friends -- Raúl the Third, Hardcover

Bursting with imagination and creativity! Your kids will go loco for El Toro! --Jeff Kinney, author of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series

From New York Times bestselling, 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 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 series!

Task #1: Getting out of bed. Usually that's not so hard, but being the champion luchador isn't easy. Today, El Toro is feeling uninspired. But his coach, Kooky Dooky, knows that practice makes better and it's important for El Toro to stay in shape and keep training!

These eye-popping illustrations will appeal to comic book fans and encourage visual literacy, with an easy-to-follow mix of Spanish and English vocabulary words. Readers will cheer as El Toro's spirits are lifted with a little help from his community and he trains hard to win his next big wrestling match against The Wall!

Author: Raúl the Third
Publisher: Versify
Published: 05/04/2021
Pages: 56
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.53lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.70w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9780358380382
Audience: Ages 4-8

Review Citation(s):
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 03/01/2021 - Book Of Special Distinction
Kirkus Reviews 03/01/2021
Publishers Weekly 03/08/2021
Booklist 03/15/2021 pg. 57
Horn Book Magazine 05/01/2021 pg. 141

About the Author
Raúl the Third is the Pura Belpré Honor-winning illustrator of Vamos! Let's Go to the Market. He is currently working on the expanded world of his Vamos! series. He grew up in El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juárez, México, and now lives in Boston, Massachusetts, with colorist and collaborator Elaine Bay and their son, Raúl the Fourth.