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HarperCollins
ISBN 0-06-113681-6
$6.99/Canada $8.99
32 pages
Ages 4 to 9
 Reviews
Story behind
the Story
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Illustrations copyright 2000 by Joe Cepeda
 
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¿Qué
se puede hacer con un niño que trata de hacer todo bien, pero que
siempre termina hacienda todo mal?
¡Reírse
de sus ocurrencias y nada más! Los lectores quedarán encantados con las
chistosísimas bufonadas de Juan Bobo, el famoso héroe del folclor
puertorriqueño. En este alegre cuento, Juan sale de su casa a buscar
trabajo, primero en una finca y luego en una tienda. Aunque las tareas
que debe llevar a cabo son sencillas y sus instrucciones no podrían ser
más claras, ¡Juan
Bobo siempre halla una forma de cometer errores y justificar su famoso
nombre!
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Joe
Cepeda is the best-selling
illustrator of Nappy Hair, by
the Carolivia Herron (Knopf); What A
Truly Cool World, by Julius Lester (Scholastic); The Old Man And His Door, by Gary Soto (Putnam).
Inspiration for his artwork came from his three-year-old son, who
sometimes resembles Juan Bobo, and from the illustrator's own
scatterbrained tendencies. He,
his wife, and their son live in Southern California. Joe Cepeda
was presented with the ALA's 2002 Pura Belpré Honor Book Award for
illustration for his artwork in Juan Bobo Goes to Work.
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The Pura Belpré Award,
established in 1996, is presented to a Latino/Latina writer and
illustrator whose work best portrays, affirms, and celebrates the Latino
cultural experience in an outstanding work of literature for children
and youth. It is co-sponsored by the Association for Library Service to
Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association (ALA)
and the National Association to Promote Library Services to the Spanish
Speaking (REFORMA), an ALA
Affiliate. The award is named after Pura Belpré, the first Latina
librarian from the New York Public Library. As a children's librarian,
storyteller, and author, she enriched the lives of Puerto Rican children
in the U.S.A. through her pioneering work of preserving and
disseminating Puerto Rican folklore. The awards are given biennially. |
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