Journey of my life: Australia

A young girl discovers all the magical sounds that exist in her everyday world. ‘Lively illustrations of multi-ethnic people in contemporary settings.’—School Library Journal.

Whisper contempla con emoción el anuncio del nuevo modelo de Yo-kai Watch en la televisión y arrastra a Nathan a comprar uno, pero se encuentran con una larga cola de Yo-kai que esperan el lanzamiento.

In Xavier Garza’s bilingual kids’ book, young Carlitos attends his first lucha libre match in Mexico City. At ringside, Carlitos sees the famous luchador—the Man in the Silver Mask, a man whose eyes look terribly familiar. The masked wrestler even smiles at Carlitos! He is mesmerized as the Man in the Silver Mask is pitted against the terrible forces of evil—los rudos, the bad guys of lucha libre. They make the audience boo and hiss! In the end, though, the Man in the Silver Mask triumphs and, in the process, gains a lifelong fan.

Portraying the secret life of various everyday objects, their feelings, and their concerns, this illustrated work makes for a fun and fascinating read. The whimsical illustrations detail things that nobody knows: that library cows graze on the words inside books, that library books read each other when no one is looking, and that a cat falls in love with a refrigerator not because of how it looks, but because of the milk inside.