Raúl is also the author and illustrator of ¡Vamos! Let's Go Eat and ¡Vamos! Let's Cross the Bridge. He's also a three-time Pura Belpré Award winner for ¡Vamos! Let's Go to The Market! and his Lowrider picture book series written by Cathy Camper, the first of which, Lowriders in Space, also won the Texas Bluebonnet.

Raúl the Third is the illustrator of the New York Times bestselling Stuntboy, in the Meantime, by Jason Reynolds. (both cowritten with Jason Griffin) and Long Way Down, which received a Newbery Honor, a Printz Honor, and a Coretta Scott King Honor.

His many books include All American Boys (cowritten with Brendan Kiely) When I Was the Greatest The Boy in the Black Suit Stamped As Brave as You For Every One the Track series ( Ghost, Patina, Sunny, and Lu) Look Both Ways Stuntboy, in the Meantime Ain't Burned All the Bright (recipient of the Caldecott Honor) and My Name Is Jason. He was also the 2020-2022 National Ambassador for Young People's Literature. Jason Reynolds is a #1 New York Times bestselling author, a Newbery Award Honoree, a Printz Award Honoree, a two-time National Book Award finalist, a Kirkus Award winner, a UK Carnegie Medal winner, a two-time Walter Dean Myers Award winner, an NAACP Image Award Winner, an Odyssey Award Winner and two-time honoree, the recipient of multiple Coretta Scott King honors, and the Margaret A. Plus, like all superheroes, Portico has an arch-nemesis who is determined to prove that there is nothing super about Portico at all. Only, all these secrets give Portico the worry wiggles, the frets, which his mom calls anxiety. They're trying to hide it by repeatedly telling Portico to go check on a neighbor 'in the meantime.' But Portico knows 'meantime' means his parents are heading into the Mean Time which means they're about to get into it, and well, Portico's superhero responsibility is to save them, too-as soon as he figures out how. In fact, he's the only reason the cat, New Name Every Day, has nine lives.Īll this is swell except for Portico's other secret, his not-so-super secret. And behind those fifty doors live a bunch of different people who Stuntboy saves all the time. But a building with fifty doors just in the hallways is definitely a castle. His mom calls where they live an apartment building.

He lives in the biggest house on the block, maybe in the whole city, which basically makes it a castle. No one in his civilian life knows he's actually.Stuntboy!īut his regular Portico identity is pretty cool, too.

Portico Reeves's superpower is making sure all the other superheroes-like his parents and two best friends-stay super. Description A Schneider Family Award Honor Book for Middle Gradeįrom Newbery Medal honoree and #1 New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds comes a hilarious, hopeful, and action-packed middle grade novel about the greatest young superhero you've never heard of, filled with illustrations by Raúl the Third!

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