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Don Quixote and the Windmills
By Kimmel, Eric A. & Fisher, Leonard Everett & Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-37431-825-3
- Publisher
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on April 1, 2004
Gr 1-5 Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote, driven mad by reading too many chivalric romances, is a universally appealing figure who expresses the human desire for excitement, passion, and meaning. In this retelling of the windmill episode, Se-or Quexada transforms himself into Don Quixote, finds his suit of armor, saddles his nag, picks a pretty farm girl as his lady love, and convinces Sancho Panza to come along as his squire. Defeating a horde of "monstrous giants" (actually wi...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
