El torneo de trabalenguas / The Tongue Twister Tournament
Nicolás Kanellos

A fun and exiting children's book that will twist, turn and twizzle your tongue. The bilingual children's book, El torneo de trabalenguas / The Tongue Twister Tournament is a picture book meant to challenge anyone's literary and linguistic abilities in both English and Spanish.

A collection of fascinating characters compete in a tongue twister championship, including Forte Fortisimo, Grumpy Granny and even the Chupacabras, as well as many other dynamic characters who are willing to attempt the most challenging tongue twisters in order to win the tongue twister trophy.

El torneo de trabalanguas / The Twister Tournament is both an entertaining and pedagogical book meant to challenge the tongues and minds of children as well as adults who are children at heart. This is a book that will surely bring laughter and joy to those who read it as well as foster the overwhelming importance of bilingualism.

Nicolás Kanellos (New York, 1945) is the founder of Arte Público Press at the University of Houston and has received many awards including the White House Hispanic Heritage Award (1988) and was appointed to the National Counsel of Humanities in 1994.

Anne Vega is the illustrator of Magda's Tortillas / Las tortillas de Magda (Piñta Books, 2000) and Magda's Piñata Magic / Magda y la piñata mágica (Piñata Books 2001).

​You can purchase El torneo de trabalenguas / The Tongue Twister Tournament through Arte Público Press. Click here to purchase.
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10/17/2016​

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