{"id":618,"date":"2008-06-01T22:00:27","date_gmt":"2008-06-01T21:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elviralindo.com\/blog\/?p=618"},"modified":"2010-08-05T22:04:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-05T21:04:00","slug":"manolito-gafotas-en-time-out-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elviralindo.com\/blog\/manolito-gafotas\/manolito-gafotas-en-time-out-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"Manolito Gafotas en Time Out New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Art\u00edculo de Julia Israel (Time Out NYC)<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>From Oliver Twist to Horatio Alger\u2019s rags-to-respectability stories, the blue-collar schoolboy has long been a literary fixture. Now another lad\u2014just as charming, if a bit more eccentric than his peers\u2014joins the canon.<\/p>\n<p>Manolito Four-Eyes, the first volume in Elvira Lindo\u2019s popular series to be translated into English, is an award winner in the author\u2019s native Spain. And no wonder: The boy\u2019s streetwise but sweet mien is a refreshing antidote to the cyber romance, jealousy and bratdom that plague much of contemporary kid-lit. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Full of invented sayings (\u201cwhole lotta cool\u201d) and descriptive nicknames (\u201cBig Ears L\u00f3pez\u201d), the brisk text depicts the goings-on in a Madrid suburb through the vision-challenged eyes of the nerdy, fun-loving ten-year-old. In one chapter, Manolito\u2019s class dresses up as a flock of doves to represent World Peace at a costume contest. In another, he accepts a dare to jump in front of a distantly approaching bus. After the driver scolds him, the guilt-ridden boy seeks out his closest confidant, his grandpa. But the plotlines are mere vehicles for the book\u2019s true joy: Manolito\u2019s outstanding narrative voice. Prone to super-detailed tangents, it expertly mimics the rhythm of a chatty tween and is a treat to read. In fact, as Manolito would say, it\u2019s the \u201cbee\u2019s knees.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(Para m\u00e1s informaci\u00f3n, hagan click <a href=\"http:\/\/newyorkkids.timeout.com\/articles\/books\/29587\/manolito-four-eyes#ixzz0vlfCF5ZU\">aqu\u00ed<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Review of Elvira Lindo&#8217;s book Manolito Four Eyes. Cr\u00edtica del libro Manolito Gafotas en ingl\u00e9s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-manolito-gafotas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elviralindo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elviralindo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elviralindo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elviralindo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elviralindo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.elviralindo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":620,"href":"https:\/\/www.elviralindo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions\/620"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elviralindo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elviralindo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elviralindo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elviralindo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}