Books like Willy the Wimp

Read this book in Spanish for Primary level. This book translates very well as it has simple sentences and the illustrations would really help the children to understand the story.The story is about Willy the gorilla, who is a bit of a wimp. He decides to 'beef up' as he is fed up of being called a wimp, so he does this. Can he change though? The illustrations are beautiful and really make the story come alive, and although children of primary level would not understand all the Spanish language and the sentence structure, it would be a fantastic book to read to younger KS2 students who were learning Spanish. I feel that this is something I missed out on learning languages; actually reading real texts rather than dated Spanish novels. The book would be excellent to read as a class, as a teacher could really accentuate the words and language, and help explain the story to the children. It could also be a talking point about friendship, and you could introduce some basic characteristics vocabulary from this book.