Written by Pablo Neruda
Illustrated by Paloma Valdivia
Translated by Sara Lissa Paulson
A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the 21st Century (So Far)
A NYT Best Children's Book of 2022
A Marginalian (aka Brain Pickings) Favorite Book of 2022
A Bank Street College of Education Best Children's Book of 2023, Outstanding Merit
A 2023 Bologna Ragazzi Award Amazing Bookshelf Selection
This Spanish-English bilingual edition is the first fully illustrated selection of Book of Questions: comprising 70 questions of the original 320, these poems, carefully woven together by theme and accompanying full-page illustrations, invite us to wonder at the natural world and the myriad mysteries it contains.
"Book of Questions," written by beloved Chilean poet and Nobel Prize winner Neruda, was completed just months before his death in 1973, and is his last great work of poetry. By turns lyrical and cosmic, dreamlike and nonsensical, paradoxical and playful, each of these unanswerable questions asks us to set aside certainty and con
