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

    Written by Margarita Engle

    Narrated by Thom Rivera

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    About this audiobook

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

    At a time when access to books was limited and imaginative books were considered evil, Miguel is inspired by storytellers and wandering actors who perform during festivals. He longs to tell stories of his own. When he is 19, four of his poems are published, launching the career of one of the greatest writers in the Spanish language.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDreamscape Media Audio
    Release dateJun 5, 2018
    ISBN9781974902538
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    Miguel's Brave Knight: Young Cervantes and His Dream of Don Quixote
    Author

    Margarita Engle

    Margarita Engle is the Cuban American author of many books including the verse novels Rima’s Rebellion; Your Heart, My Sky; With a Star in My Hand; The Surrender Tree, a Newbery Honor winner; and The Lightning Dreamer. Her verse memoirs include Soaring Earth and Enchanted Air, which received the Pura Belpré Award, a Walter Dean Myers Award Honor, and was a finalist for the YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction, among others. Her picture books include Drum Dream Girl, Dancing Hands, and The Flying Girl. Visit her at MargaritaEngle.com.

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      Cuban-American children's author Margarita Engle spins the story of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra in this poetic picture-book biography, following the life of the celebrated 16th-century Spanish author from his young childhood through the publication of his classic work, The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha. Detailing the hardship and poverty that Cervantes endured, because of his barber-father's gambling habit, the poems also highlight the crucial role that imagination and storytelling had in the boy's development and spiritual survival. Throughout his troubled youth, he dreamed of a brave knight, and one day he penned the story of that knight...Having grown up adoring the story of Don Quixote - my family had an old LP of the original cast recording of the fabulous musical production, Man of La Mancha, based upon Cervantes' immortal tale, and I had all the songs memorized by the time I was eight - I was eager to see what Margarita Engle and illustrator Raúl Colón would do with their source material. Miguel's Brave Knight is a resounding success, both as an informative work and as a poetic one. I really enjoyed Engle's narrative, appreciating both her specific word use - I loved her description of pages as being door-like (no doubt both in dimension and in function!) - and her overarching themes regarding the power of daydreaming and story to sustain us during tough times. I also found Colón's artwork, created using pen and ink and watercolor, immensely appealing. I loved the pairing of realistic events from Cervantes' life with imaginary ones from his dream world, and how the two mingled and interacted on the page! The effect was incredibly rich, emphasizing the interconnected nature of thought and action, not to mention word and art.In sum: a lovely book, one that can be read as picture-book biography and as poetry. Highly recommended to anyone looking to introduce Cervantes and his great work to young children. As for me? This was a timely reminder that I still need to read the original!