Miguel's Brave Knight: Young Cervantes and His Dream of Don Quixote

by Margarita Engle

Book Overview

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra finds refuge from his difficult childhood by imagining the adventures of a brave but clumsy knight.

This fictionalized first-person biography in verse of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra follows the early years of the child who grows up to pen Don Quixote, the first modern novel. The son of a vagabond barber-surgeon, Miguel looks to his own imagination for an escape from his family's troubles and finds...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1561458562
• ISBN13: 9781561458561
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Peachtree Publishers
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 9.8" x 12.0"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7