**A stunning picture book biography from Monica Brown and illustrator
Julie Paschkis about one of the world's most enduring and popular poets,
Pablo Neruda
**
Once there was a little boy named Neftalí who loved wild things wildly
and quiet things quietly. From the moment he could talk, he surrounded
himself with words. Neftalí discovered the magic between the pages of
books. When he was sixteen, he began publishing his poems as Pablo
Neruda.
Pablo wrote poems about the things he loved--things made by his friends
in the café, things found at the marketplace, and things he saw in
nature. He wrote about the people of Chile and their stories of
struggle. Because above all things and above all words, Pablo Neruda
loved people.