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2.5⭐️ Thought that the book was ok. While I really enjoyed the craft by the author, I thought that the story went by a little too slowly for my liking and I just didn‘t like it as much as I thought I would. #2022 #bookreview #bookstagram #historicalfiction #fiction #warfiction #literaryfiction #bookclub

This is a story about a boy named Neftali who had a dream of becoming something that his father didn‘t want him to be. His father was very hard on him as well as his siblings and forced them to do something in business or law. He wanted them to indulge in their studies. However, Neftali had bigger plans of becoming a writer. He indeed did just that and went on to eventually win a Nobel Peace Prize. This is a Pura Belpre Award winner.

Language that sticks with you and a story that breaks and mends your heart over and over.

From his poems grew flowers of hope and dreams of peace.

This story gives students an opportunity to read about someone they may not know too much about and exposes them to different cultural perspectives.

This picture book walks through the story of famous poet Pablo Neruda. The story discusses how the Chilean poet found inspiration for his poems and how he used his gift to speak out against poor working conditions of miners. What really stuck out to me were the illustrations in this book and the integration of Spanish words alongside their English counterparts.

Books 130-132 of the year.

Inspired by the childhood of Pablo Neruda, this middle grade novel is beautiful and an inspiration to young children who don‘t fit in or follow the norm, sometimes despite outside pressure to do so. I highly recommend this for classroom libraries.