Given Valdivia's roots and her personal resonance with Neruda, many of the illustrated questions are chosen for and filtered through the lens of landscape and its ecosystems. "Book of Questions now comes alive in a stunning bilingual picture-book, illustrated by Chilean artist Paloma Valdivia. In fact, part of the magic of Neruda's questions is not that the reader finds an answer but rather finds even more questions." -NPR In illustrating these questions, Valdivia didn't want to hint at any answers. The book is large and contains playful fold-out pages and whimsical illustrations that help bring readers into the imaginative world of the questions. The new edition is meant for everyone in the family. Now, a new bilingual, illustrated selection of Neruda's questions has been published by Enchanted Lion Books, giving anglophone readers-and especially children-an opportunity to interrogate the world along with the Chilean poet. "Compiled throughout his life and published a year after his death in 1973, Neruda's thoughtful and playful questions are well known in Latin American literature. Neruda likely would have approved of the way Valdivia has made his dream world real." -Joyce Maynard, New York Times It's good news that Neruda's question poems (39 of the original 74) have been freshly translated into English by Sara Lissa Paulson and presented for the first time in picture book form, with stylized, dreamlike illustrations by the Chilean artist Paloma Valdivia-English on one side of the page, Spanish on the other. Not one of the questions contained in this book resolves an issue of fact. brings together 74 poems shaped around mysterious, playful, frequently metaphysical questions about nature, constellations, memory, numbers, oceans, the interior life of the mind. So clearly rooted in Chilean landscapes as they are, the questions are revealed as a communion with nature and its mysteries.Ī Marginalian (formerly Brain Pickings) Favorite Book of 2022 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. 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. 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. 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. Starred reviews in The Horn Book, Kirkus, SLJ, and PW! Selected for the Academy of American Poets 2022 Featured Fall Books List for Young Readers 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.Ī New York Times Best Children's Book of 2022Ī Marginalian (fka Brain Pickings) Favorite Book of 2022Ī USBBY Outstanding International Book of 2023Ī 2023 Bologna Ragazzi Award Amazing Bookshelf Selection
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