El torneo de trabalenguas/ The Tongue Twister Tournament

A ringmaster in a top hat serves as a guide to the “grand Tongue Twister Tournament,” where competitors (including a lizard, chupacabra, and soccer player named Fuchi Futbolista) vie for the grand prize trophy. Readers should enjoy seeing how the rhymes and names change in the English and Spanish versions of each tongue-twister, most of which are twistier in Spanish (“Beto rebota la bola/ la bola que Beto rebota/ rebota la bola Beto/ la bola de Beto rebota”). Vega spotlights each competitor’s star moment in posterlike scenes set on a dramatically lit stage, and a closing section of English and Spanish rhymes presents additional tongue-twisting challenges for ambitious readers. Ages 6–10. (Oct.)