Juan Bobo goes to work : a Puerto Rican folktale / retold by Marisa Montes ; illustrated by Joe Cepeda.
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TextPublication details: New York : HarperCollins, 2000.Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cmISBN: - 0688162339
- 9780688162337
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book
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Main Library | Children's NonFiction | 398.2097295 M779 | Available | 33111004505489 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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!
Although he tries to do exactly as his mother tells him, foolish Juan Bobo keeps getting things all wrong.