Pablo Neruda: Poet of the People

Monica Brown

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Honor Book:Orbis Pictus Award -Children's Nonfiction (2012)

Winner:Americas Award for Children & Young Adult Literature -Children/Young Adult (2012)

A stunning picture book biography from Monica Brown and illustrator Julie Paschkis about one of the world's most enduring and popular poets, Pablo Neruda

Once there was a little boy named Neftalí who loved wild things wildly and quiet things quietly. From the moment he could talk, he surrounded himself with words. Neftalí discovered the magic between the pages of books. When he was sixteen, he began publishing his poems as Pablo Neruda.

Pablo wrote poems about the things he loved--things made by his friends in the café, things found at the marketplace, and things he saw in nature. He wrote about the people of Chile and their stories of struggle. Because above all things and above all words, Pablo Neruda loved people.

Book Details

Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
Publish Date: Mar 29th, 2011
Pages: 32
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 11.11in - 9.02in - 0.36in - 0.86lb
EAN: 9780805091984
Recommended age: 06-09
Categories: • Biography & Autobiography - Literary• Poetry - General

About the Author

Brown, Monica: - Monica Brown, Ph.D. is the author of many award-winning books for children, including Pablo Neruda: Poet of the People, winner of the Américas Award for Children's Literature and an Orbis Pictus Honor for Outstanding Nonfiction, and Waiting for the Biblioburro, a Christopher Award winner. She is a Professor of English at Northern Arizona University, specializing in U.S. Latino Literature and Multicultural Literature. She is a recipient of the prestigious Rockefeller Fellowship on Chicano Cultural Literacies from the Center for Chicano Studies at the University of California. She lives with her husband and two daughters in Flagstaff, Arizona.

Paschkis, Julie: - Julie Paschkis is a painter and award-winning illustrator of many books for children, including Pablo Neruda: Poet of the People, Building on Nature: The Life of Antoni Gaudi, and Glass Slipper, Gold Sandal: A Worldwide Cinderella. A love of pattern and of folk art shows in all her work. She lives in Seattle, Washington.

Praise for this book

"A visual and thematic stunner." --Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review

"Brown and Paschkis paint a compelling portrait of a man who saw the world as a joyful, complex, and beautiful poem waiting to be unveiled." --Publishers Weekly

"Brown's succinct lines read like a poem themselves, and they emphasize the infinite places writers find inspiration, from seashores to coal mines to the faces of people they love." --Booklist

"Impassioned (story)telling combine with Paschkis's vibrant, decorative style for a book high in child appeal." --School Library Journal

"It all adds up to an intriguing taste of Neruda's themes and concerns, winningly dramatized in the splendor of Paschkis's illustrations." --Horn Book Magazine