# Pedro's Yo-Yos

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**Category:** General Yo-Yo\
**Created:** [January 11, 2024, 8:02pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/pedros-yo-yos/391833 "2024-01-11T20:02:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![rickbr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f475e1/32.png) [@rickbr](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/rickbr)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2024, 8:02pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/pedros-yo-yos/391833/1 "2024-01-11T20:02:20Z")

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New children’s book (7-9), _Pedro’s Yo-Yos - How a Filipino Immigrant Came to America and Changed the World of Toys_, coming to bookstores April 30, 2024.

Written by Rob Peñas and illustrated by the incomparable Carl Angel. A book that has been in the works since Carl reached out to me by way of the [Museum of Yo-Yo History](http://www.yoyomuseum.com) website in 2017.

See the starred review in Kirkus: [https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/rob-penas/pedros-yo-yos/](https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/rob-penas/pedros-yo-yos/).

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**Author:** ![Big\_Jack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b487fb/32.png) [@Big\_Jack](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Big_Jack)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2024, 5:19pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/pedros-yo-yos/391833/2 "2024-01-14T17:19:13Z")

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Thanks for sharing this information , I’ll be all over this book when it’s releases .  
I love the nostalgia of yo-yos , I’m 65 and started yo-yoing in Toronto Ontario in 1966, and by 1969-70 , I finally won a local National Yoyo contest , and was presented with my prizes by Al GALLO , PRESIDENT of National yoyo of Canada , he started as a Cheerio Champion demonstrator in the 50’s , and evolved from there . He talked about Pedro all the time at the yoyo meets , says that it was all because of Pedro , that we’re all having fun with the yoyo.

All with a wooden toy ……

Jack