Charlie's Great Big Backpack

by Margarita del Mazo, Guridi (Illustrator)

Overview

A new and hilarious adventure for Charlie on the class camping trip.

Charlie is going camping with the school and his classmate, Big Louis, the biggest boy in his class, is his partner. Ever-prepared Charlie has packed lots of things in his backpack.

As soon as they arrive Charlie accidentally hits Big Louis on the foot with a hammer but… fortunately Charlie has all the essentials to make a cast for it. Unfortunately for Big Louis, he puts the cast on the wrong foot!

As the day goes on, with one mishap after another, Big Louis asks the teacher to change partner, but when danger strikes, Charlie shows that a good friend is always there to help.

También disponible en español. (Also available in Spanish.)

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788419607508
Publisher:	NubeOcho
Publication date:	06/04/2024
Series:	Another Charlie Book
Pages:	44
Product dimensions:	9.75(w) x 6.50(h) x (d)
Lexile:	AD680L (what's this?)
Age Range:	3 - 7 Years

About the Author

Margarita del Mazo is a writer and storyteller who is greatly admired in Spain. She has almost twenty books to her name, many of which have been translated into other languages. Among them are the bestsellers Camuñas and The Flock (El rebaño in Spanish), winning the Madrid Booksellers Guild Award and the Miami Cuatrogatos Foundation Award for best illustrated children's book.

Guridi is an artist from Sevilla (Spain). Since 1995, he's worked and experimented professionally almost every aspect of design, image and advertisement.
He's published over seventy books. His work is highly valued in Spain, while also being recognized abroad. His books have been published in USA, France, Germany, Italy, Libano… He currently combines his work as teacher with his career as a children's book illustrator.

Editorial Reviews

Charlie sets out to fearlessly represent both the smaller kids in the world and the eyeglass wearing ones (I don’t have a Venn diagram in front of me right now, but I suspect that there’s a fair amount of overlap between these two categories). But it wasn’t until I started reading some of the selections of these books that I fell in love with Charlie and his odd little world – A Fuse 8 Productions.

Underscored with the theme of friendship, emotions, feelings, and self-esteem, "Charlie's Great Big Backpack" by the team of author/storyteller Margarita del Mazo and artist/illustrator Guridi, is a fun read from start to finish. While especially and unreservedly recommended for family, daycare care center, preschool, elementary school, and community library Life Lessons picture book collections for children ages 3-7 – Midwest Book Reviews-Children's Bookwatch.

Another triumphant adventure for this ever-striving hero to the bespectacled and undersized – Kirkus.

The adventures of Carlitos are stories of childhood innocence, joy, friendship, school, and more. These books will bring laughs to readers of all ages – Youth Services Book Review.

From the Publisher

2024-05-04
Nerdy, feckless Charlie faces a new challenge: camping!

Charlie’s antithesis, Big Louis, with his bowling-ball physique, glowering unibrow, and huge, tapering arms, intimidates everyone. But not Charlie! He’s excited to partner with Big Louis on the class camping trip. Admittedly, Charlie’s backpack is “a little heavier than usual,” thanks to his family members, who have advised him to be as prepared as possible. On the trip, a combination of Charlie’s clumsiness, carelessness, and errors soon incapacitates Big Louis: He is wounded, drenched, and hoping to be freed from his well-meaning partner. Then, confronted by a huge bear, Big Louis turns “whiter than a vampire’s backside.” Charlie’s intervention seems futile, and when he runs to his tent, it looks like he’s abandoning his buddy. Instead, he returns with an improvised catapult. Why the bear hasn’t already dined on Big Louis isn’t explained, but the catapult sends several jugs of honey into the forest, where the bear happily follows, earning Charlie a new title: “the Scarebear.” The hyperbolic line drawings—predominantly black and white (emphasizing Louis’s black, skull-adorned T-shirt and black hair) with touches of color (Charlie’s enormous red eyeglasses)—play up the absurd contrast between the two characters. While the conclusion to this tale, translated from Spanish, may feel a bit out of the blue, it’s nevertheless a funny and satisfying one. Characters have skin the white of the page.

Another triumphant adventure for this ever-striving hero to the bespectacled and undersized. (Picture book. 4-7)

Kirkus Reviews