Crack Goes the Cascarón: An Eggcellent Not-Just-for-Easter Shellebration! by Rocío Arreola Mendoza, Sara Andrea Fajardo
on February 18, 2025
ISBN: 0593805674
Genres: Holiday, Realistic Fiction
Format: Picture Book Fiction
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“Crack goes the Cascaron” or “La Explosion del Cascaron” is a picture book written by Sara Andrea Fajardo and illustrated by Rocio Arreola Mendoza about the practice of making cascarones (eggshells filled with confetti and decorated that you then crack on people’s heads). The Spanish version is translated by Yanitzia Canetti. Toti is the King of cascarones and has planned several extra special ones (filled with slime, smoke, glitter!), but when he wakes up, he cannot find his family members. They surprise him with a taste of his own medicine (in a fun way).

This is an egg pun-filled picture book that will inspire readers to make their own cascarones. Illustrations are colorful and humorous and the silly story showcases a family having fun with each other. Both the English and Spanish versions are suggested additional purchases for picture book collections. Aimed at ages 3-7.

Reviewed by Kate Radke, Walker Memorial Library, Westbrook, ME.