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Elsewhere Editions

Mafalda: Book Two

Mafalda: Book Two

by Quino, translated from the Spanish by Frank Wynne, illustrated by Quino

$19.00
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Ages 8–12 Available as E-Book Books for Kids Children's Literature Comics & Graphic Novels Latin American Literature
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As good a place as any to enter the madcap world of Mafalda and friends, Book Two of Mafalda finds the gang up to new antics. Mafalda heads off on a beach vacation, where she meets a curious stranger: Miguelito, a mop-headed philosopher who happens to live right down the street back at home. Susanita, Manolito, and Felipe, meanwhile, continue to tussle over all matter of issues, romp around the neighborhood, and execute physical feats of great proportions. Only this time, Quino brings everyone together in an alien environment: elementary school.

Quino's legendary comic fuses political incisiveness with all sorts of gags and hijinks. Mafalda notes the peculiar effects of consumerism and globalization, the ironies of sexism, and the injustices of poverty. Her clear-sighted antiwar beliefs will inspire a new generation of thinkers and activists. All the while young readers will fall in love with Quino's drawings which evoke all the humor, irritation, ponderousness, and energy of childhood.

Additional Book Information

Series: Elsewhere Editions
ISBN: 9781962770453
Pages: 120
Publication Date:

Praise

A brand new collection of Mafalda comics . . . if you were lucky enough to see the first Mafalda then this will not disappoint. Our diminutive heroine is still yearning for democracy and hating soup.
—Betsy Bird, School Library Journal's Fuse 8 Blog

Though her family was solidly middle class, Mafalda didn’t let that fool her into thinking that everything was fine in her unequal society. She was too sharp for that, too observant . . . She worries about the kinds of things that many parents want to protect their children from even noticing—poverty and war and repression . . . The expansive, bighearted politics of Quino’s strip feel out of step with this terrifying moment, but, then again, that may be precisely why now is the right time to return to its heroine.
—Daniel Alarcón, The New Yorker

When wider American audiences do meet Mafalda, they’ll find a girl who resembles Ernie Bushmiller’s iconic character Nancy, but whose antics are entirely her own. Mafalda reaches for outer space on a seltzer-fueled jetpack, and is open to all kinds of experience. Even if she’s unlikely to help Democrats and Republicans get along, her brand of innocent but opinionated curiosity could show the so-called adults in the room how to do better by future generations.
—Benjamin P. Russell, The New York Times

Each Quino book is happiness.
—Gabriel García Márquez

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