A tender, transcendent, and meticulously crafted novel, Pura Belpré Award Winner from Newbery Honoree, Pam Muñoz Ryan, and three-time Caldecott Honoree, Peter Sís!Desde que era chico, Neftalí escucha el llamado de una misteriosa voz. Aunque los niños vecinos se burlen y su autoritario padre lo ridiculice, e incluso aunque él mismo dude a veces, Neftalí sabe que no puede ignorar ese llamado. Escucha y sigue la voz por la fronda exuberante de la selva tropical hasta al mar imponente, a través de la persistente lluvia chilena en un viaje inspirador de autodescubrimiento que transformará su vida y, a la larga, también el mundo.From the time he is a young boy, Neftalí 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, Neftalí 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.
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Pam Munoz Ryan
Pam Muñoz Ryan is the recipient of the Newbery Honor Medal and the Kirkus Prize for her New York Times bestselling novel, Echo, as well as the NEA's Human and Civil Rights Award and the Virginia Hamilton Literary Award for multicultural literature for her body of work. She is the 2018 U.S. nominee for the international Hans Christian Andersen Award. Her celebrated novels, Mañanaland, Echo, Esperanza Rising, The Dreamer, Riding Freedom, Becoming Naomi Léon, and Paint the Wind, have received countless accolades, among them two Pura Belpré Awards, a NAPPA Gold Award, a Jane Addams Children's Book Award, and two Américas Awards. Her acclaimed picture books include Amelia and Eleanor Go for a Ride and When Marian Sang, both illustrated by Brian Selznick, and Tony Baloney, illustrated by Edwin Fotheringham, as well as a beginning reader series featuring Tony Baloney. Ryan lives near San Diego, California, with her family.
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