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

About This Book

This picture book biography, told in free verse by award-winning poet Margarita Engle and illustrated by Raul Colon, imagines the childhood of Miguel de Cervantes, who would grow up to write Don Quixote, often called the first modern novel. As his family moved around Spain to escape hardship, young Miguel found refuge in his vivid imagination at a time when imaginative books were considered dangerous. He drew inspiration from the stories of traveling performers and his daydreams of a brave knight who would ride out and right the world’s wrongs.