Lowriders in Space (Book 1)

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Lupe Impala, El Chavo Flapjack, and Elirio Malaria love working with cars.You name it, they can fix it.But the teams favorite cars of all are low riderscars that hip and hop, dip and drop: low riders!The stars align when a contest for the best car around offers a prize of a trunkful of cashjust what the team needs to open their own shop!But how can they turn their junker into a winner

Striking art from a debut illustrator is a riff on ballpoint-pen-and-sharpie desk-drawn doodles, and the storyfull of Spanish, science, and friendshipwill delight readers eager and reluctant alike.A glossary at the back provides definitions for Spanish and science terms.

Author Bio

Cathy Camper'swork has been featured in Amy Sedaris' bookSimple Times; Crafts for Poor Peopleand in theNew York Timesreview of the book. Shes published a childrens science bookBugs Before Time; Prehistoric Insects and Their Relativeswith Simon and Schuster (2002), and her work has appeared in places like Wired, Cricket, Cicada, Primavera, Womens Review of Books, Utne ReaderandGiant Robot. She reviews graphic novels online for Lambda Books. She works for Multnomah County Library in Portland, Oregon, as a librarian doing outreach to schools and kids grade K-12. For more information:www.cathycamper.com

Raul Gonzalezswork is drawing much acclaim, and was featured in three shows in2011: The Community Art Initiative Artist Project: And Their Families, at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts,Close Distanceat the Mills Gallery, in Boston Massachusetts, andThe Artadia Award Show, at the Art Institute of San Francisco, California. He teaches classes on drawing and comics for kids at The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston and the Maude Morgan Visual Arts Center in Cambridge. Raul has exhibited his work along the East Coast in Boston and New York at such fine galleries as Carrol and Sons, Space 242, Aidekman Visual Arts Center and many more. He was recently awarded the Wet Paint Grant: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/06/raul-gonzales-receives-ca_n_950786.htmlGrowing up in Texas, he remembers Cholo kids were masters at drawing with Bic pens and that has influenced his style of drawing for this book. For more of his artwork see:www.artbyraul.com