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Book of Questions Hardcover - 2022

by Pablo Neruda; Paloma Valdivia (Illustrator); Sara Lissa Paulson (Translator)

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Where is the center of the sea? Why do the waves never break there? A book containing unanswerable, fantastical questions, inviting us to be curious, while simultaneously embracing what we cannot know.

A New York Times Best Children's Book of 2022
A Marginalian (fka Brain Pickings) Favorite Book of 2022
A New York Times Bestseller!
A USBBY Outstanding International Book of 2023
A 2023 Bologna Ragazzi Award Amazing Bookshelf Selection
Selected for the Academy of American Poets 2022 Featured Fall Books List for Young Readers
Starred reviews in The Horn Book, Kirkus, SLJ, and PW!

This bilingual Spanish-English edition is the first illustrated selection of questions, 70 in all, from Pablo Neruda's original poem (320 questions) The Book of Questions.

Holding the wonder and mystery of childhood and the experience and knowing that come with growing up, these questions are by turns lyrical, strange, surreal, spiritual, historical and political. They foreground the natural world, and their curiosity transcends all logic; and because they are paradoxes and riddles that embrace the limits of our ability to know, they engage with human freedom in the deepest way, removing the burden and constraint that somehow, we are meant to have answers to every question.

Gorgeously, cosmically illustrated by Paloma Valdivia, here Neruda's questions, already visual in themselves, gain a double visuality that makes them even more palpable and resonant. So clearly rooted in Chilean landscapes as they are, the questions are revealed as a communion with nature and its mysteries.

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  • Title Book of Questions
  • Author Pablo Neruda; Paloma Valdivia (Illustrator); Sara Lissa Paulson (Translator)
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 80
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Enchanted Lion
  • Date 2022-04-26
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bilingual, Illustrated
  • ISBN 9781592703227 / 1592703224
  • Weight 1.65 lbs (0.75 kg)
  • Dimensions 12.2 x 9 x 0.6 in (30.99 x 22.86 x 1.52 cm)
  • Ages 05 to 18 years
  • Grade levels K - 13
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Caribbean
    • Cultural Region: Latin America
    • Ethnic Orientation: Hispanic
    • Ethnic Orientation: Latino
  • Library of Congress subjects Poetry, Spanish language materials - Bilingual
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2022011118
  • Dewey Decimal Code 861

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Citations

  • Booklist, 03/15/2022, Page 69
  • Horn Book Magazine, 05/01/2022, Page 158
  • Hornbook Guide to Children, 01/01/2022, Page 0
  • Kirkus Reviews, 03/01/2022, Page 0
  • Publishers Weekly, 04/25/2022, Page 0
  • School Library Journal, 12/01/2021, Page 80

About the author

Pablo Neruda (Parral, Chile, 1904 - Santiago de Chile, Chile, 1973), whose real name was Neftal Reyes Basoalto, is undoubtedly one of the pinnacles of world poetry of the last century. Famous from a very young age, he lived in Santiago from 1920 to 1927, years in which he wrote, among others, the collection of poems "Twenty love poems and a Song of Despair," which has perhaps gained widest popularity of all his work and marks the moment when he first achieves his full powers as a Spanish-language poet. Neruda traveled extensively and and served as Chile's ambassador to several countries, including Burma, France, and Argentina. He was a prominent political activist, member of the Communist Party, and a militant intellectual. Endowed with incomparable verbal power, he also founded a revolutionary conception of poetry. His literary career is one of the main expressive adventures of the lyric in the Spanish language. In awarding him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971, the Swedish Academy described him as a poet "who brings to life the destinies and dreams of an entire continent." Neruda was also awarded the International Peace Prize.

Born in Chile in 1978, Paloma Valdivia studied design at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and studied Creative Illustration at the Eina School of Art and Design in Barcelona, Spain. Her main passion is illustrated books for children. Her book have been translated into 12 languages. As a teacher, she directs the degree program in "Illustration and Autobiographical Narrative" at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. She lives in Santiago with her family.

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