Juan Bobo goes to work : a Puerto Rican folktale by Montes, Marisa

Juan Bobo goes to work : a Puerto Rican folktale (#19909MX)

by Montes, Marisa; illustrated by Cepeda, Joe
Hardcover HarperCollins, 2000

Price: USD 19.60

Dewey: 398.2; Audience: Lower Elementary; Reading Level: 2.7
Description: 32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations; 29 cm


Product Overview
From Follett
Text mainly in English with some words in Spanish. A retelling of the Puerto Rican folktale in which a boy named Juan Bobo tries to do exactly as his mother tells him, but keeps getting things all wrong.
From the Publisher
What can you do with a boy who tries to do things right but only leaves disaster in his wake?

Laugh--that's what! Readers everywhere will love to laugh at the hilarious antics of the ever-blundering Juan Bobo, Puerto Rico's most celebrated fold character.

In this rollicking Juan Bobo tale, our hero sets out to find work at the farm and the grocery. Although the tasks are simple and the directions couldn't be clearer, he always find a way to bungle things up as only a character whose name means "Simple John" could!

Product Details
  • Publisher: HarperCollins
  • Publication Date: September 19, 2000
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Edition: 1st ed.
  • Dewey: 398.2
  • Classifications: Nonfiction
  • Description: 32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations; 29 cm
  • Tracings: Cepeda, Joe, illustrator.
  • ISBN-10: 0-688-16233-9
  • ISBN-13: 978-0-688-16233-7
  • LCCN: 99-028799
  • Follett Number: 19909MX
  • Catalog Number: 0688162339
  • Reading Level: 2.7
  • Audience: Lower Elementary