Pizza and Taco: Rock Out!

Name: Pizza and Taco: Rock Out!
Brand: Penguin Random House
Availability: InStock
Author: Stephen Shaskan
ISBN: 9780593792940

Author: Stephen Shaskan

Series: Pizza and Taco #5

Narrator: Rene Ruiz

Unabridged: 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Listening Library

Published: 10/17/2023

Categories: Children's Fiction, Children's Social Themes, Beginner Readers, Children's Graphic Novels

Synopsis

Besties Pizza and Taco are ready to rock out! They have a cool band name! And some instruments—sort of. Songs? Well, even without mad musical skills, how hard can it be? This super-silly graphic novel series, adpated for audio, by Stephen Shaskan hits a new high note!

Pizza and Taco love music! They make lists, and they have tryouts to get more band members. They think they have all the ingredients to rock the scene. But maybe this garage band should stay in the garage!!

Readers will devour all the books in the series:
Pizza and Taco: Who's the Best?
Pizza and Taco: Best Party Ever!
Pizza and Taco: Super-Awesome Comic!
Pizza and Taco: Too Cool For School

About The Author

STEPHEN SHASKAN has written and illustrated a dozen children's books in addition to his successful Pizza and Taco series. His debut picture book, A Dog Is a Dog, was a New York Public Library 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing Selection and was a CCBC Choices Book. He holds a BFA in illustration from Rhode Island School of Design, and worked with kids for twenty years as an early childhood educator and an after-school and summer art teacher. He performs musical storytimes, presents at schools, conferences, and festivals, and teaches comic classes to kids. Stephen lives with--and often collaborates with--his wife, author Trisha Speed Shaskan, in Minneapolis.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Vivian on June 03, 2024

It was a great book for kids. And interesting 🤔......more

Goodreads review by Barbara on January 14, 2023

The characters Pizza and Taco are surely the most unlikely pair to appear in books for children, but they're even more unlikely to head their own garage band. All of this makes this particular book--3.5 for me--even more appealing and giggle-inducing. In its five chapters, this book had me laughing......more

Goodreads review by Read on January 23, 2023

Rock Out! is the latest in Stephen Shaskan's graph novel series for young were readers featuring main characters Pizza and Taco. In this graphic novel, the two best friends Taco and Pizza decide to start a rock band. Their process of establishing a band has stops and starts as they try to figure wha......more

Goodreads review by Sandy on June 28, 2024

How hard is it to create your own band? Well, Taco and Pizza soon find out. After discussing their favorite bands: Beetles, Jo-Jo’s, Jam Jett, and Food Fighters, they decided to create their own band because that would be so cool! They each have their own vision of what they should sound/look like,......more

Goodreads review by Becky on January 25, 2023

First sentence: Taco: Check out my fave band! Pizza: Lollipop and the Popcorns? Taco: YAAAS! Pizza: Anyone can do that! Premise/plot: Pizza and Taco--two best friends--are back in their fifth early reader graphic novel. In this adventure, the two decide--with a little back and forth--to start their......more