Training Day
El Toro & Friends: a Graphic Novel
HarperCollins · Print & ebook · May 4, 2021
"Bursting with imagination and creativity!
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- Who it’s for
- El Toro’s training-day antics bring wrestling energy to an early reader in Spanish and English.
- Themes
- Wrestling and training, Perseverance, Coach encouragement
- Genres
- Wrestling Stories, Animal Comics, Beginner Readers
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"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!
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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!
Lucha, Bilingual Pages
El Toro’s training-day antics bring wrestling energy to an early reader in Spanish and English.
Come here for
- A wrestling star with a reluctant start to practice
- Spanish and English vocabulary woven into a graphic-novel-style read
Expect
- Detailed illustrations and easy vocabulary
- An early reader centered on training before a wrestling match
Where it sits
| Wrestling Stories | 49% |
|---|---|
| Animal Comics | 44% |
| Beginner Readers | 39% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Action Comics
- Animal Comics
- Funny Comics
- US: Hispanic & Latino Stories
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- City & Town Life
- Stories Set in Mexico
- Wrestling Stories
- Self-Esteem & Resilience
- Authors
- Raúl the Third
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- May 4, 2021
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Wrestling and training · Perseverance · Coach encouragement
- Reading lane
- Action Comics