Manolito Gafotas

Manolito Gafotas, translated into English as Manolito Four-Eyes, is a 1994 children's novel by the Spanish writer Elvira Lindo, illustrated by Emilio Urberuaga. The first of a series of novels about the adventures of a working class kid in Carabanchel, Madrid, the Kirkus review comments on its chatty, first-person narrative and understated humor and describes it as "a classic in its native Spain."