Dragon's First Taco (from the creators of Dragons Love Tacos)

by Adam Rubin, Daniel Salmieri (Illustrator)

Overview

Let the New York Times bestselling team behind Dragons Love Tacos introduce the joy of dragons to the youngest of readers in this original board book shaped like a taco!

What do you get when you take a tortilla, fold it in half, and fill it with all sorts of delicious things? A taco, of course!

This little dragon's first taco will surely not be their last in this lively, funny board book that introduces the magic of tacos and dragons.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780593533178
Publisher:	Penguin Young Readers Group
Publication date:	09/26/2023
Pages:	16
Sales rank:	92,113
Product dimensions:	4.20(w) x 7.30(h) x 1.00(d)
Lexile:	AD500L (what's this?)
Age Range:	1 - 3 Years

About the Author

Adam Rubin is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of ten critically acclaimed picture books, including Dragons Love Tacos, Dragons Love Tacos 2: The Sequel, High Five, Robo-Sauce, and El Chupacabras, which won the Texas Bluebonnet Award.

Daniel Salmieri is the #1 New York Times bestselling illustrator of Dragons Love Tacos and numerous other picture books, and the author/illustrator of the critically acclaimed Bear and Wolf and Before, Now. His editorial illustrations can be seen in The New Yorker and The New York Times. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife and son.

Editorial Reviews

07/03/2023

Having irrefutably established that Dragons Love Tacos, Rubin and Salmieri offer a taco-shaped board book to welcome youngest dragons to the gustatory club. On page one, an adorable blue dragon with black horns and googly eyes encounters a drawing of the titular food in a frame worthy of a royal portrait. “Do you know what this is? It’s called a taco. You are gonna love it,” enthuses the narrator. Suggesting that they make a taco together, the voice next introduces the essential tortilla, which hangs above the little dragon, emanating sun-like rays. Once folded (a move that the dragon regards with professorial scrutiny), “whatever we tuck inside magically turns into a taco!” The dragon next takes to the sky and floats among possible ingredients, and then comes the best part: eating a tasty, dragon-size morsel that’s stuffed with goodness, then savoring its taste in a dreamy-eyed, full-stomach afterglow. Now the little dragon imagines variations, shown in sketchlike images that depict tacos as comprising a birthday cake, a car, headphones, a leashed pet (tacocat?), and more—grandly suggesting a whole world of applications for the much-beloved food. Ages 1–3. (Sept.)

Publishers Weekly

"Having irrefutably established that Dragons Love Tacos, Rubin and Salmieri offer a taco-shaped board book to welcome youngest dragons to the gustatory club." —Publishers Weekly

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