Lowriders in Space (Book 1)

Description

Lupe Impala, El Chavo Flapjack, and Elirio Malaria love working with cars. You name it, they can fix it. But the team's favorite cars of all are low riders-cars 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 cash-just 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 story-full of Spanish, science, and friendship-will delight readers eager and reluctant alike. A glossary at the back provides definitions for Spanish and science terms.

Cathy Camper's work has been featured in Amy Sedaris' book Simple Times; Crafts for Poor People and in the New York Times review of the book. She's published a children's science book Bugs Before Time; Prehistoric Insects and Their Relatives with Simon and Schuster (2002), and her work has appeared in places like Wired, Cricket, Cicada, Primavera, Women's Review of Books, Utne Reader and Giant 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 Gonzalez's work is drawing much acclaim, and was featured in three shows in 2011: The Community Art Initiative Artist Project: And Their Families, at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Close Distance at the Mills Gallery, in Boston Massachusetts, and The 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.html Growing 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