The Casagrandes #1: We're All Familia

by The Loud House Creative Team

Overview

When Lincoln Loud’s close friend Ronnie Anne and her brother Bobby Santiago moved away from Royal Oaks to the Big City, they had no idea that they were about to start an exciting new chapter in their lives, while living in an apartment above their abuelo’s Mercado. Together with their mom, Maria, they are adapting from going to a family of three in Royal Oaks to living with their whole extended family, headed by the kids’ abuelos, Hector and Rosa, in the big city. Now, The Casagrandes are starring in their own popular animated series on Nickelodeon! Collecting The Casagrandes’s greatest comic stories from the hit The Loud House graphic novel series. Featuring stories from the creative team of the hit Nickelodeon shows The Loud House and The Casagrandes!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781545806227
Publisher:	Papercutz
Publication date:	05/04/2021
Series:	Casagrandes , #1
Pages:	64
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	7 - 12 Years

About the Author

The Loud House Creative Team are the talented men and women behind Nickelodeon’s latest hit show. Everyone from storyboard artists, prop designers, production assistants and show writers lend their time and hard work to create comics that further the universe of THE LOUD HOUSE.

Editorial Reviews

2021-05-05
Make way for the familia; there’s a lot of them.

The Nickelodeon animated series makes a jump to join the Loud House graphic novels with the first installment of a collection of vignettes focusing on the lives of the Mexican American Casagrande family and their friends. The Santiagos—Ronnie Annie, her brother, Bobby, and their mom, Maria, née Casagrande—have a learning curve when it comes to living with their extended family. Recently arrived at the Casagrande home, Ronnie Annie and Bobby now get to help out at the family mercado and babysit their younger cousins. Although they enjoy helping out, they sometimes come up with creative ways to avoid missing out on the fun to be had elsewhere. The rest of Ronnie Annie and Bobby’s world is populated by a racially diverse cast. While the stories incorporate some tropes on Mexican customs and Mexican families, like the abuelita with traditional home remedies and the love for everything spicy, they are portrayed as celebrations of their cultural diversity. The graphic novel’s frontmatter provides the lyrics to the show’s theme song along with four pages of useful character description, giving some brief background information on relationships among the characters and their personalities. The backmatter includes an editor’s note and a series of Q&As with some of the #ownvoices showrunners and voice actors of the TV show.

A silly, enjoyable read. (Graphic fiction. 7-12)

Kirkus Reviews