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Levy, Janice

Gonzalo Grabs the Good Life

32 pp. | Eerdmans | February, 2009 | Trade ISBN 978-0-8028-5328-8 $17.50
(4) K-3 Illustrated by Bill Slavin. After rooster Gonzalo wins the lottery, he quits farmwork. He tries living in a Miami mansion and then as a Hollywood party animal, but the good life disagrees with him. This story, peppered with Spanish words and phrases, has a halfhearted point to make about humility, but it's mainly an amusement, with nearly every acrylic-on-gesso page a visual punch line. Glos.
Reviewer: Nell Beram

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