Bookshop is delighted to welcome award-winning author and illustrator Yuyi Morales, creator of beloved books for children including her newest, Nino Wrestles the World, as well as Just a Minute: A Trickster Tale and Counting Book, and illustrations for Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez.
Since migrating to the U.S. from Mexico in 1994, Morales has become the first author/illustrator to win the prestigious Pura Belpre Medal four times. (The Pura Belpre Award is an honor bestowed by the American Library Association to authors and illustrators whose work best portrays, affirms, and celebrates the Latino cultural experience in an outstanding work of literature for children.)
Little luchador Nino battles out-of-this-world opponents one by one until he finally meets his match. Nino has a big imagination and a love of lucha libre, the popular Mexican masked wrestling. While his sisters nap, he becomes an impressive luchador, facing competitors often drawn from Mexican history and folklore. The text, unfolding as if by a commentator calling the action, begs to be read aloud. Challengers are vanquished not by violence but by gentle horseplay and clever wit-until Nino meets Las Hermanitas, awake from their naps, and must quickly devise a new strategy to take on such crafty adversaries.
Please note the afternoon start time for this event.
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Since migrating to the U.S. from Mexico in 1994, Morales has become the first author/illustrator to win the prestigious Pura Belpre Medal four times. (The Pura Belpre Award is an honor bestowed by the American Library Association to authors and illustrators whose work best portrays, affirms, and celebrates the Latino cultural experience in an outstanding work of literature for children.)
Little luchador Nino battles out-of-this-world opponents one by one until he finally meets his match. Nino has a big imagination and a love of lucha libre, the popular Mexican masked wrestling. While his sisters nap, he becomes an impressive luchador, facing competitors often drawn from Mexican history and folklore. The text, unfolding as if by a commentator calling the action, begs to be read aloud. Challengers are vanquished not by violence but by gentle horseplay and clever wit-until Nino meets Las Hermanitas, awake from their naps, and must quickly devise a new strategy to take on such crafty adversaries.
Please note the afternoon start time for this event.
Bookshop is delighted to welcome award-winning author and illustrator Yuyi Morales, creator of beloved books for children including her newest, Nino Wrestles the World, as well as Just a Minute: A Trickster Tale and Counting Book, and illustrations for Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez.
Since migrating to the U.S. from Mexico in 1994, Morales has become the first author/illustrator to win the prestigious Pura Belpre Medal four times. (The Pura Belpre Award is an honor bestowed by the American Library Association to authors and illustrators whose work best portrays, affirms, and celebrates the Latino cultural experience in an outstanding work of literature for children.)
Little luchador Nino battles out-of-this-world opponents one by one until he finally meets his match. Nino has a big imagination and a love of lucha libre, the popular Mexican masked wrestling. While his sisters nap, he becomes an impressive luchador, facing competitors often drawn from Mexican history and folklore. The text, unfolding as if by a commentator calling the action, begs to be read aloud. Challengers are vanquished not by violence but by gentle horseplay and clever wit-until Nino meets Las Hermanitas, awake from their naps, and must quickly devise a new strategy to take on such crafty adversaries.
Please note the afternoon start time for this event.
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Since migrating to the U.S. from Mexico in 1994, Morales has become the first author/illustrator to win the prestigious Pura Belpre Medal four times. (The Pura Belpre Award is an honor bestowed by the American Library Association to authors and illustrators whose work best portrays, affirms, and celebrates the Latino cultural experience in an outstanding work of literature for children.)
Little luchador Nino battles out-of-this-world opponents one by one until he finally meets his match. Nino has a big imagination and a love of lucha libre, the popular Mexican masked wrestling. While his sisters nap, he becomes an impressive luchador, facing competitors often drawn from Mexican history and folklore. The text, unfolding as if by a commentator calling the action, begs to be read aloud. Challengers are vanquished not by violence but by gentle horseplay and clever wit-until Nino meets Las Hermanitas, awake from their naps, and must quickly devise a new strategy to take on such crafty adversaries.
Please note the afternoon start time for this event.
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