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Cargando... Don Quixote and the Windmills (2004)por Eric A. Kimmel
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I have never read the full story of Don Quixote so whatever humor was to be found in this parody was completely lost on me. He seeks adventure so he renders himself a knight and goes off to fight monsters which are actually just windmills. I suppose children would find it a humorous story regardless of context, but that's about all I have to say about it. Don Quixote and the Windmills is a book that could be good for a person who has read the Spanish story Don Quixote. But for me, I haven't read the that story yet. Since this book is a parody of Don Quixote, only a person who has read that story will actually get the laughs that the author intends to get out of his audience. Unfortunately, it didn't work for me. Had I actually read Don Quixote, I think this book would have been funny and a great parody of a great novel. This picture book by Portland's own Eric Kimmel is a delightful retelling of The Ingenious Hildalgo Don Quixote De La Manchaby Miguel De Cervantes Saaverdra. Kimmel gets right to the heart of the story sharing the merry mishaps of the unlikeliest of heros. Children will be tickled to see Quixote courageously advancing upon windmills he believes to be giants, making excuses for his failures and confidently moving into the future with the certainty of a success. While thie illustrations nicely highlight the main events and provide a compelling interpretation of both Don Quixote and Sacho Panza, the dark and muted pallete is less eye catching and attractive than I had hoped. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Immersed in tales of knights and dragons and sorcerers and damsels in distress, Senor Quexada proclaims himself a knight and sets out on his first adventure against some nearby windmills that he thinks are giants. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Google Books — Cargando... GénerosSistema Decimal Melvil (DDC)863.32Literature Spanish and Portuguese Spanish fiction Spanish Golden Age (1499-1681) Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de 1547–1616Clasificación de la Biblioteca del CongresoValoraciónPromedio:
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One of the number of picture-book collaborations between Kimmel and Fisher - others include The Hero Beowulf, The Three Princes: A Tale from the Middle East and Blackbeard's Last Fight - Don Quixote and the Windmills offers an engaging snapshot of one of the most influential literary characters in the Western canon. The story is entertaining, and the artwork expressive, accentuating the humor throughout. This would pair very nicely with Margarita Engle's Miguel's Brave Knight: Young Cervantes and His Dream of Don Quixote, in a study unit on the Spanish Golden Age, although it could also be read simply as an entertaining fairy-tale, or as a child's first introduction to this great work of literature. ( )