'Lucía the Luchadora' is a wonderfully fun action picture book/comic for kids.
It's about luchadoras, luchadores, and lucha libre - the awesome Mexican wrestling and acrobatic tradition, and its history (luchadoras and luchadores are like real life superheroes! and they do get involved in social justice). It's about gender equality, and it's high-power entertainment! The art is adorable, dazzling and fabulous!Though, does anyone seriously still believe that girls can't be superheroes? 'Lucía the Luchadora' was published in 2017. I'd say that superheroines in the mass pop culture media were more than fairly common back then! Only internet trolls, misogynists and young boys with terrible parents would think that girls and women can't be heroes.
That girls and women can't be whatever the hell they want.
The book could have given us more of the masked cat in the past, and the masked dog in the present, too.
But it's all colourful and exciting stuff! And hooray for diversity!
'A luchadora has moxie. She is brave and full of heart, and isn't afraid to fight for what is right.'
Lucía the Luchadora - the superheroine that kids need.
A big hug for 'Lucía the Luchadora'!
Final Score: 4/5
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