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Santiago Saw Things Differently
- Author
- Christine Iverson
- Narrator
- Robb Moreira
- Publisher
- Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish Date
- 7 January 2025
- Run Time
- 15 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
“An introduction to Santiago Ramón y Cajal, an artist and medical researcher who made a crucial discovery. … Brightly illuminates a brilliant and multitalented yet unjustly obscure scientist.”—Kirkus Reviews
Santiago Ramón y Cajal’s father, the village doctor, wants Santiago to be a doctor. He discourages his willful son’s love and aptitude for art. But drawing and painting are as necessary to Santiago as breathing, so when his father confiscates his art supplies, the boy finds a way to draw in secret. He draws on doors, gates, and walls, and to the neighbors, his drawings are a nuisance. But Santiago sees things differently. He’s an artist and always will be, even after he grows up and becomes a doctor. And art helps him discover what no one else could: branching connections within the nervous system. Debut author Christine Iverson’s vivid text evokes Santiago’s pioneering nature. Facts about neurons and the science behind Santiago Ramón y Cajal’s 1906 Nobel Prize for Medicine round out this brilliant account of a boy who shaped his scientific fate as an artist.
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- Author
- Christine Iverson
- Narrator
- Robb Moreira
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Release Date
- 7 January 2025
- ISBN
- 9798896792635
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Recorded Books, Inc.
- Genre
- Children’s / Teenage general interest: Biography and autobiography, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Science: The human body, Educational: Biology, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Biography and autobiography, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Art and artists
Synopsis
“An introduction to Santiago Ramón y Cajal, an artist and medical researcher who made a crucial discovery. … Brightly illuminates a brilliant and multitalented yet unjustly obscure scientist.”—Kirkus Reviews Santiago Ramón y Cajal’s father, the village doctor, wants Santiago to be a doctor. He discourages his willful son’s love and aptitude for art. But drawing and painting are as necessary to Santiago as breathing, so when his father confiscates his art supplies, the boy finds a way to draw in secret. He draws on doors, gates, and walls, and to the neighbors, his drawings are a nuisance. But Santiago sees things differently. He’s an artist and always will be, even after he grows up and becomes a doctor. And art helps him discover what no one else could: branching connections within the nervous system. Debut author Christine Iverson’s vivid text evokes Santiago’s pioneering nature. Facts about neurons and the science behind Santiago Ramón y Cajal’s 1906 Nobel Prize for Medicine round out this brilliant account of a boy who shaped his scientific fate as an artist.
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