Tacos Today

Ages 6 to 10, Grades 1 to 5

From New York Times bestselling, Pura Belpré Award–winning author-illustrator Raúl the Third, Tacos Today follows the young luchadores on the hunt for their favorite lunch in another action-packed, graphic-novel-style El Toro & Friends paper-over-board reader from the World of ¡Vamos!

“Outrageously creative! Kids will drink in every imaginative detail in El Toro’s wild world!” —Jeff Kinney, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid seriesIt’s lunchtime for young El Toro and his friends—and each one is looking forward to a different kind of taco, their favorite!The luchadores take a break from their training and head into town to eat. When they count their lunch money and discover they don’t have enough for tacos, they will have to work together on a creative, fun solution to earn plenty of dinero for a delicious all-you-can-eat spectacular!Flavored with Spanish phrases and topped with plenty of humor, this early reader graphic novel is essential for those who want an action-packed story and lots of laughs.

About the Author

Raúl the Third is the New York Times bestselling, three-time Pura Belpré Award–winning author-illustrator of the World of ¡Vamos! series and the illustrator of Schneider Family Award honoree Stuntboy, in the Meantime, written by Jason Reynolds. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts, with his New York Times bestselling collaborator, Elaine Bay.