Lowriders in Space - Softcover

Camper, Cathy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1452128693 ISBN 13: 9781452128696

Publisher: Chronicle Books, 2014

Synopsis

Lupe Impala, El Chavo Flapjack, and Elirio Malaria love working with cars. You name it, they can fix it. But the team's favorite cars of all are lowriders—cars that hip and hop, dip and drop, go low and slow, bajito y suavecito. The stars align when a contest for the best car around offers a prize of a trunkful of cash—just what the team needs to open their own shop! ”Ay chihuahua! What will it take to transform a junker into the best car in the universe? Striking, unparalleled art from debut illustrator Raul the Third recalls ballpoint-pen-and-Sharpie desk-drawn doodles, while the story is sketched with Spanish, inked with science facts, and colored with true friendship. With a glossary at the back to provide definitions for Spanish and science terms, this delightful book will educate and entertain in equal measure.

About this title

About the Author:

Cathy Camper is a librarian focusing on outreach to schools and children in grades K-12. She lives in Portland, Oregon.

Raul the Third teaches classes on drawing and comics for kids at the Museum of Fine Arts and the Institute of Contemporary Art. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts.

Review:

"Thanks to writer Cathy Camper's passion for science, and Raul inventive drawings, this kid's graphic novel about creatures (Lume Impala, El Chavo Flapjack and Elirio Malaria) who pimp their rides will make adults steal the book from children."--Entertainment Weekly, The Must List

"It's fun, it's silly, it's totally cool."--Amy Cheney, School Library Journal

"Intricate ballpoint pen illustrations by Raul the Third could be pored over for hours."--St. Louis Post-Dispatch

"Incredibly fun ."--The Planetary Society

"From the 'hood to the Hollywood Hills and the projects to the Poconos, Cathy Camper and Raśl the Third's thrilling interstellar adventure is sure to put a smile on the face of any kid and any parent. I love Lowriders in Space!" --Davy Rothbart, author of My Heart Is an Idiot, creator of FOUND magazine, and contributor to This American Life

"Check out these names: Lupe Impala. Flapjack Octopus. Elirio Malaria. Now imagine how awesome a story about characters with these names ought to be. Then double it. That's pretty much how awesome this graphic novel is."-- Gene Luen Yang, National Ambassador for Young People's Literature

"We need Low Riders in Space out there now. It's cool and funny and original. AND it fills a huge need for books about Latino culture."--Jon Scieszka, bestselling author of The Stinky Cheese Man

"This buoyant graphic novel highlights lowrider culture with all the flair the subject deserves."--Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, starred review

"This book was created to celebrate the creativity and ingenuity of the lowrider culture."--Library Media Connection

"A fun and educational (don't tell the kids!) text for young readers."--Sense and Sensibility and Storeies

About this edition

• Publisher: Chronicle Books
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1452128693
• ISBN 13: 9781452128696
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 112
• Illustrator: Raul The Third