Pura Belpr Award Winner A tender transcendent and meticulously crafted novel from Newbery Honoree Pam Muoz Ryan and three time Caldecott Honoree Peter Ss From the time he is a young boy Neftal hears the call of a mysterious voice Even when the neighborhood children taunt him and when his harsh authoritarian father ridicules him and when he doubts himself Neftal knows he cannot ignore the call He listens and follows as it leads him under the canopy of the lush rain forest into the fearsome sea and through the persistent Chilean rain on an inspiring voyage of self discovery that will transform his life and ultimately the world Combining elements of magical realism with biography poetry literary fiction and transporting illustrations Pam Muoz Ryan and Peter Ss take readers on a rare journey of the heart and imagination as they explore the inspiring early life of the poet who became Pablo Neruda Pura Belpre Award Winner A tender transcendent and meticulously crafted novel from Newbery Honoree Pam Munoz Ryan and three time Caldecott Honoree Peter Sis From the time he is a young boy Neftali hears the call of a mysterious voice Even when the neighborhood children taunt him and when his harsh authoritarian father ridicules him and when he doubts himself Neftali knows he cannot ignore the call He listens and follows as it leads him under the canopy of the lush rain forest into the fearsome sea and through the persistent Chilean rain on an inspiring voyage of self discovery that will transform his life and ultimately the world Combining elements of magical realism with biography poetry literary fiction and transporting illustrations Pam Munoz Ryan and Peter Sis take readers on a rare journey of the heart and imagination as they explore the inspiring early life of the poet who became Pablo Neruda Winner of the 2011 Pura Belpr Award for fiction now in an elegant paperback edition From the time he is a young boy Neftali hears t - from Amzon