¡vamos! Let's Celebrate Halloween And Día De Los Muertos: A Halloween And Day Of The Dead Celebration by Raul the Third (Hardcover)

Childrens Picture Book - Holidays and Celebrations - Halloween - Dia De Los Muertos - Hispanic & Latino - Ages 4-8

Published: 6/19/2024

From New York Times bestselling, three-time Pura Belpré Award–winning author-illustrator Raúl the Third, ¡Vamos! Let’s Celebrate Halloween and Día de los Muertos follows Little Lobo and friends on a Halloween and Día de los Muertos adventure in the first World of ¡Vamos! holiday book!

Little Lobo is celebrating two big holidays this fall!

On Halloween, Little Lobo and his friends dress up in costumes, trick-or-treat for candy, and share spooky stories. Then everyone in the town prepares food, drinks, and other gifts and decorates the cemetery with ofrendas so they can enjoy Día de los Muertos with the spirits of the people they love. Join Little Lobo and his friends as they celebrate!

Full of easy-to-remember Spanish vocabulary and packed with cultural details, this colorful story of two fall holidays brings the celebrations of this border town to readers everywhere!

AUTHOR BIO: 

Raúl the Third is the New York Times bestselling, three-time Pura Belpré Award-winning author-illustrator of ¡Vamos! Let's Go to the Market, ¡Vamos! Let's Go Eat, ¡Vamos! Let's Cross the Bridge, and the rest of the World of ¡Vamos! series. He is also the illustrator of Schneider Family Book Award honoree Stuntboy, in the Meantime, written by Jason Reynolds, and the Lowriders series, written by Cathy Camper. Raúl was born in Texas and grew up going back and forth between El Paso and Ciudad Juárez, México. He now lives in Medford, Massachusetts, with his collaborator and fellow New York Times bestselling artist, Elaine Bay, and their son, Raúl the Fourth.