"Wildly imaginative and creative! Your kids will go loco for El Toro!" -- Jeff Kinney, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series "In typical ¡Vamos! style, a vibrant world bursts to life on every page, filled with movement and a detailed host of cartoon characters, though text and images are simplified to accommodate beginning readers. Raúl offers a lesson in visual literacy, utilizing speech bubbles and panels in addition to traditional narration." -- Booklist (starred review) "Simple sentences and recognizable--yet entirely fresh and original--plot structures set up young readers for accomplishment. Visual and linguistic whirls and twirls match the fast-paced tempo of lucha libre, serving up dazzling Chicano English. Reward[s] attentive eyes and ears with endless detail and inside jokes." -- Horn Book (starred review) "A generous touch of giddy surrealism continues to make Raúl the Third's faunal milieu a destination, lovingly detailed in frenetic compositions and Bay's SweeTart-hued digital colorization. Exercise and toilet cleaning are rarely this much fun." -- Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (starred review) "As in the World of ¡Vamos! books, the creator, alongside colorist Elaine Bay, utilizes comics-style layouts and an eye-catching, lightly faded color palette.

lively banter and humorous illustrations make for an absorbing early reader." -- Publishers Weekly "The unstoppable Raúl the Third brings his border barrio to rip-roaring life with plenty of humor, embedded Spanish, and Chicano cultural references. Comic-book and lucha libre fans alike will not tap out of this semibilingual smackdown." -- Kirkus Reviews.