From the time he is a young boy, Neftalí hears the call of a mysterious voice. Even when the neighborhood children taunt him, his authoritarian father ridicules him, and he doubts himself, Neftalí knows he cannot ignore the call. Under the canopy of the rain forest, and into the fearsome sea, and through the persistent Chilean rain, he listens and he follows. This story combines elements of magical realism with biography, poetry, literary fiction, and sensorial illustrations by Caldecott Honor recipient and MacArthur Fellow, Peter Sís.
Spanish edition (El Soñador) Audio book edition, Scholastic Audio
Selected Awards and Honors
The PEN USA Award – The Pura Belpé Medal – The Americas Award – Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor – Scelte di Classe Prize, Italy – Nautilus Book Award GOLD – White Raven Outstanding International Book – NAIBA Carla Cohen Free Speech Award – National Parenting Publications Award GOLD – NCTE Notable Book in the Language Arts – NCSS/CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Book – IRA Notable Children’s Books for a Global Society – Horn Book Fanfare Book of 2010 – Book Industry Guild of New York (Best Book Design) – Kirkus Best Children Books of 2010 – Smithsonian Notable Book – Booklist Editor’s Choice 2010 – Distinguished Lyrical Fictionalized Biography (Children’s Literature Council) – Premio Letteratura Ragazzi (Italy) – Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis (Germany)
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