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Manolito Four-Eyes: The 2nd Volume of the Great Encyclopedia of My Life
149 pp.
| Cavendish |
April, 2009 |
TradeISBN 978-0-7614-5470-0$15.99
(3)
4-6
Translated by Caroline Travalia.
Illustrated by
Emilio Urberuaga.
It's a pleasure to see a second Manolito book getting an English translation. While the "plot" is little more than a loosely connected series of anecdotes, illustrated with spirited black-and-white drawings, they're really funny ones (e.g., mistakenly calling out the name of a player from the other team during a soccer match). Manolito's breezy first-person narration is charming and completely believable.