¡Vamos! Let's Go Eat

"The main character is a wolf, Little Lobo. There are all these anthropomorphic animals. It reminds me of the Richard Scarry stories, where you have these anthropomorphic animals going about their day. If you look at the picture book, there are all these things you can see going on in the background, but if you listen to the audiobook, you can hear all the sounds of Little Lobo and his friends going to the market, buying food for the luchadores, who are these pro wrestlers who are very hungry and want some food before their match. It’s such a sweet story of them going to talk to the luchadores , going to the different food trucks, picking out all the different foods, and then bringing it back for a big feast before the show. Gary Tiedemann is the narrator and he does a great job with all the different character voices. They’re not too silly but they’re definitely a little silly. There’s a rooster who’s talking in sort of a rooster-y voice and there’s all the different wrestlers from a little Chihuahua to a big bull. Listening to the book you get a sense of who all those characters are and their friendship. There’s something about the rhythm of the way it’s written and the style of the narration that is really appealing to younger listeners. There’s also Spanish interwoven in it—it’s set in a border town between the US and Mexico. It’s a lot of fun to listen to. Definitely. I don’t have a good handle on Spanish, so for them, hearing it from somebody who is a Spanish speaker, helps a lot with the pronunciations. They’re getting a sense of how to actually say these words. There’s even a glossary at the end with all these different food words that my four-year-old will sit and listen to—and then correct me. This is a book that’s partly about finding all these different foods for the different creatures, so they’re also getting a sense of all these foods they haven’t had before, but have seen Mom and Dad eating. Maybe they want to try tamales now, they’re excited about having salsa . That’s a food we’re now having a lot more of with the kids at our house."