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Niño Wrestles The World (2013)

by Yuyi Morales(Favorite Author)

3.84 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1596436042 (ISBN13: 9781596436046)

languge

English

genre

Humor

publisher

Roaring Brook Press

review 1: For ‘Niño Wrestles the World’ I chose to do a text to text connection. I chose this because I grew up listening to the story of La Llorona, or the weeping woman. The real story about her is scary and I even watched a movie about it in elementary school, but in this book, it talks about Niño fighting her and winning. It’s pretty funny how he tricks her with two dolls that look like children and beats her in the wrestling match.
review 2: Wonderful book! Yuyi Morales has created a character named Nino who loves to imagine that he is a luchadores (wrestler). As we follow him along he undertakes petrifying opponents like La Momia de Guanajuato (zombie/mummy), El Extraterrestre (Extraterrestrial), and even his sisters! Yuyi Morales expertly & subtly weaves ... morethe Latino/a tradition of Lucha Libre (professional wrestling) with the traditional interests of an American childhood like legos and scooters. Her illustrations are colorful and vibrant! They combine aspects of Lucha Libre as well those action words we’ve seen on old Batman shows showing how boys of all culture tend to fall in love with the world of wrestling. This book is appropriate for grades K-2 and is a wonderful way to show how a child of two cultures can love things from both, as well as how things from two cultures can be very similar (Lucha Libre & WWE). less

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