Book of questions : selections = Libro de las preguntas : selecciones
(Book)

Translated from the Spanish.

Fold-out pages.

Abridged and illustrated version of Libro de las Preguntas (1974) aimed at younger audiences.

Esta edici̤n biling|e espąol-ingľs es la primera selecci̤n completamente ilustrada del ±Libro de las Preguntas?. Compuesto por 70 preguntas de las 320 originales, estos poemas, cuidadosamente entretejidos por tema e ilustraciones a toda p̀gina, nos invitan a maravillarnos con el mundo natural y los innumerables misterios que contiene. ±El Libro de las Preguntas?, escrito por el querido poeta chileno y ganador del Premio Nobel Neruda, se complet̤ pocos meses antes de su muerte en 1973, y es su ︢ltima gran obra pǒtica. A su vez l̕rico y c̤smico, on̕rico y absurdo, parad̤jico y l︢dico, cada una de estas preguntas sin respuesta nos pide que dejemos de lado la certeza y la restricci̤n y nos entremos en la inmensidad de lo desconocido. Con acertijos como ±¿D̤nde est̀ el centro del mar? / ¿Por qǔ las olas no rompen all̕?? y ±¿C̤mo llamas a una flor / que revolotea de p̀jaro en p̀jaro??, Neruda nos inspira a desentrąar nuestras suposiciones y repensar nuestra relaci̤n con la naturaleza. La ︢nica respuesta que seguramente surgir̀ de estas preguntas es una observaci̤n y una reflexi̤n m̀s cercanas sobre el mundo en el que vivimos, y un sentido renovado de curiosidad y asombro por nuestro universo compartido.

"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 constraint and to enter into the vastness of the unknown. With riddles like "Where is the center of the sea? / Why don't waves break there?" and "What do you call a flower / that flits from bird to bird?", Neruda inspires us to unravel our assumptions and re-envision our relationship to nature. The only answer that is sure to arise from these questions is a closer observation of and reflection on the world in which we live, and a renewed sense of curiosity and wonder at our shared universe"--,Provided by publisher.

Ages 6-14.,Enchanted Lion Books.

Grades 2-3.,Enchanted Lion Books.

Text in English and Spanish.