mistral, gabriela

"Lonely Cuban-born eleven-year-old Oriol lives in Santa Barbara, California, where she enjoys caring for injured animals, but her budding friendship with Gabriela Mistral, the first Latin American winner of a Nobel Prize in Literature, emboldens Oriol, an aspiring writer, to open up and create a world of words for herself"--OCLC.

Lonely Cuban-born eleven-year-old Oriol lives in Santa Barbara, California, where she enjoys caring for injured animals, but her budding friendship with Gabriela Mistral, the first Latin American winner of a Nobel Prize in Literature, emboldens Oriol, an aspiring writer, to open up and create a world of words for herself.

Presents biographies of Hispanics who have had an impact on world culture, including artist Pablo Picasso, writer Gabriela Mistral, and politician Benito Ju?rez.

Presents short biographies of three famous people who influenced the Hispanic world including Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral, and nineteenth-century Mexican President Benito Ju?rez.

Contains selected poems by Latin American Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriela Mistral, presented in Spanish with English translations.

Presents a short biography of the life of early twentieth-century Chilean children's author and poet, Gabriela Mistral, and describes her childhood and education as a teacher and her works that led to receiving the Nobel Prize for literature in 1945. Presented in English and Spanish.