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Las aventuras de Chupacabra Charlie

Frederick Luis Aldama
Ilustrado por Chris Escobar

36 full color pages 10 x 7
Pub Date: September, 2021

Subjects: Fiction
Comics and Comics Studies
Latinx & Latin American Studies

Series: Latinographix

Imprint: Mad Creek

Language: Spanish

order Paperback $9.95   ISBN: 978-0-8142-5801-9
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Honorable Mention, Alma Flor Ada Best Latino Focused Children’s Picture Book Award, International Latino Book Awards


“Reads like a classic folktale. Escobar’s hauntingly surrealistic ink-and-watercolor illustrations carry readers along as Charlie searches for a purposeful “quest” and for acceptance.…Readers learn that children of all backgrounds—creature and human alike—are the same inside, an idea that transcends societal boundaries and promotes world peace.”—Booklist

“The adventure Charlie and Lupe embark on is a timely and courageous one as it addresses the migration crisis on the border and the imprisonment of children.” —Kirkus Reviews

“As with the vast majority of Aldama’s writing, the story centers on and gives agency to the Latinx experience.… Aldama and Escobar have created a vibrant, exciting, and thought-provoking book that will bring joy to children of all cultures and experiences.”—Daniel A. Olivas, Los Angeles Review of Books

Chupacabra Charlie es un chupacabras de diez años educado, guapo e inusualmente alto que anhela la aventura más allá de los límites de México, pero no muy al norte. Poco sabe Charlie cuando se hace amigo de una joven humana, Lupe, que juntos, con solo algunas quesadillas de tocino y algunas latas de Jumex, encontrarán más aventuras de las que podrían manejar. En el camino, se encuentrarán con personas extrañas y peligros inesperados en la frontera entre Estados Unidos y México que ponen a prueba su valentía. ¿Podrán Charlie y Lupe regresar sanos y salvos a casa?

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The Adventures of Chupacabra Charlie (English edition)

Written by Frederick Luis Aldama
Illustrated by Chris Escobar