Team Up: El Toro and Friends: World of ¡Vamos!
By Carrie Kingsley,
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Fun, fast tale of teamwork blends English and Spanish.
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What's the Story?
Set in the time before they became a powerful together, El Toro and the other wrestlers start their training to become luchadores in TEAM UP: EL TORO AND FRIENDS. Their teacher at Ricky Ratón's School of Lucha trains them in strength, discipline, patience, and more, and they are each skilled wrestlers. But the final test is to defeat the teacher, and the group learns that working together makes them more powerful than any of them are by themselves.
Is It Any Good?
Action and teamwork take center stage, and this fun, silly graphic novel finds a way to blend English and Spanish throughout in delightful ways that engage young readers. Team Up: El Toro and Friends is great for early readers, with a simple plot, repeating sight words and lots of context clues in the eye-popping illustrations. The themes of teamwork and perseverance are lovely, reminding readers to work hard on their own skills while also looking for ways to become even better when they work with others.
Talk to Your Kids About ...
Families can talk about what powers they could combine with friends like in Team Up: El Toro and Friends. What are your special abilities? What about your friends or family?
Are there times when you prefer to work alone instead of on a team? Why?
What other books about teamwork have you read? What about books with Spanish?
Book Details
- Author: Raul the Third
- Genre: Graphic Novel
- Topics: Magic and Fantasy , Superheroes , Friendship
- Character Strengths: Perseverance , Teamwork
- Book type: Fiction
- Publisher: Versify
- Publication date: September 20, 2022
- Publisher's recommended age(s): 4 - 8
- Number of pages: 56
- Available on: Hardback, iBooks, Kindle
- Award: Common Sense Selection
- Last updated: October 3, 2022
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