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32 pp.
January, 1998 |
TradeISBN 0-679-88030-5
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LibraryISBN 0-679-98030-X
(3)
K-3
The only costume Ricky wants to wear for his class's 'Cinco de Mayo' play is a big, bushy mustache, because it looks just like Papi's. When he wears it home from school to show his parents, he loses it along the way. Papi's solution--he generously offers his own freshly shaved mustache--is a little unlikely, but the warm family relationship, emphasized in Cepeda's bold paintings, comes across nevertheless.