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Brown, Monica

Pablo Neruda: Poet of the People

32 pp. | Holt | March, 2011 | Trade ISBN 978-0-8050-9198-4 $16.99

(2) K-3 Illustrated by Julie Paschkis. Brown opens with Neftali's boyhood love of reading, writing, and nature, celebrating the subjects that informed his poetry and his "dreams of peace." Paschkis's signature effusions of color and stylized forms are embellished with words--in English, Spanish, and other languages--poetically related in both sound and sense. It all adds up to an intriguing dramatization of Neruda's themes and concerns. Reading list, websites.

Reviewer: Joanna Rudge Long | Horn Book Magazine Issue: March, 2011