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To Go Singing through the World: The Childhood of Pablo Neruda
40 pp.
| Farrar/Foster |
November, 2006 |
TradeISBN 0-374-37627-1$17.00
(4)
K-3
This look at how Neruda's childhood in a frontier town in Chile shaped his writing elegantly incorporates passages from his poetry and prose. Influenced by the stories of his stepmother and encouraged by teacher/poet Gabriela Mistral, Neruda finds his own song as a poet. Ray's warm-hued paintings and musical language capture the power of place, although the text is overly long. Timeline.