To Go Singing Through the World by Deborah Kogan Ray.  New York:  Frances Foster Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006. 

ISBN 0-374-37627-1.

TOP 10

The story of Pablo Neruda’s childhood in an isolated area of Chile.  The book is filled with beautiful artwork and text is interspersed with Neruda’s poetry.

 

Media:  Watercolor & Ink

Q5/P5

5-9^th

 

Curricular Connection:  Level 5-9^th.  Art, Language Arts, Social Studies.

 

D. Balestreri added to PB 7/25/09

 

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To Go Singing Through the World: The Childhood of Pablo Neruda by Deborah Kogan Ray. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006. ISBN 978-0-374-37627-7

 

Annotation: This illustrated biography of Chilean poet Pablo Neruda’s childhood enumerates his shyness, passionate expression and gift with words, and the encouragement of poet Gabriela Mistral to pursue his dreams.

 

Media: Watercolor and pencil.

 

Rating: 5Q/4P.

 

Curricular connections: English/Language Arts, Poetry, Biographies/Autobiographies.

 

School level: Upper elementary, Middle school or junior high.

 

NP 07/29/09

 

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To Go Singing Through the World: The Childhood of Pablo Neruda by Deborah Kogan Ray. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006.

 

ISBN: 9780374376277

 

 

 

This biography of Chilean poet Pablo Neruda’s early years shows his development as a writer and reveals the importance of nature in his poems, as well as his burgeoning interest in indigenous rights.

 

Curricular Connection: Middle School, subject: writers’ lives/biographies

 

 

 

Rating: 5Q/5P

 

 

 

Posted by LA 4/6/8

 

To Go Singing Through the World:  The Childhood of Pablo Neruda by Deborah Kogan Ray.  New York:  Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2006. 

 

Neruda’s poetry is interwoven with an account of his childhood in Temuco in southern Chile.  The story describes the native population and Neruda’s introduction to poetry and literature through his first mentor, Gabriela Mistral.

ISBN: 0374376271

Media:  watercolor and gouache illustrations

Q/P:  4/4

SIMILE:  “Winds howled like wolves…”; “…a voice like an oboe”; “…protected in his shell as the beetles he collected”; “...elusive as the spider”.

CURRICULUM CONNECTION:  5^th – 8^th grade poetry and language arts classes

FBoggs 07/09