
¡Vamos! Let's Go to the Market
Region: Latin America, Mexico
Author: Raúl the Third
Original Language: Bilingual: Spanish-English
Translator: Translated by the author
Illustrator: Raúl the Third , Elaine Bay
Characters: Little Lobo, Bernabe
Genre: Graphic novels, comic books, and manga
Descriptors: dogs; markets; border town
Age: 0-3 years old
Review
Join Little Lobo and his dog Bernabe as they visit a busy, border town market, firstly, to deliver many much-needed supplies to vendors, and secondly, to gather their own special treats, traded items, and once in a lifetime experience! While accompanying Little Lobo and Bernabe to the market, the reader is met with brilliant, comic book style illustrations paired with Spanish vocabulary and phrases, some that are translated, others’ that are translated in the glossary at the end of the book. Written, illustrated, and translated by Raúl the Third and vividly colored by Elaine Bay, ¡Vamos! offers a bilingual adventure through a vibrant, colorful, town marketplace while introducing simple Spanish words and phrases to the reader in an i-Spy meets Richard Scarry’s Busytown type of way.
More About This Book
Reviewed: e-book 2019 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN: 9780358063407. 50 pages (unpaged).
Notes: https://www.hmhbooks.com/shop/books/and-iexclvamos-lets-go-to-the-market/9781328557261 ;
https://www.worldcat.org/title/vamos-lets-go-to-the-market/oclc/1194586508&referer=brief_results
Reviewed by: Tiffany Bowers