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★ ""With the assistance of Mlawer and Lázaro, National Young People's Poet Laureate Engle brings to children the childhood of the great storyteller Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra in his native tongue. . . .the Spanish translation by Mlawer and Lázaro beautifully captures the rhythm and language of the original. . . . Colón's remarkable pen-and-ink-and-watercolor illustrations have an old-masters quality that perfectly complements the narrative. . . This is a worthy translation of a beautiful and engaging book.""—Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review

With the assistance of Mlawer and L zaro, National Young People's Poet Laureate Engle brings to children the childhood of the great storyteller Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra in his native tongue....the Spanish translation by Mlawer and L zaro beautifully captures the rhythm and language of the original.... Col n's remarkable pen-and-ink-and-watercolor illustrations have an old-masters quality that perfectly complements the narrative... This is a worthy translation of a beautiful and engaging book.

With the assistance of Mlawer and Lazaro, National Young People's Poet Laureate Engle brings to children the childhood of the great storyteller Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra in his native tongue....the Spanish translation by Mlawer and Lazaro beautifully captures the rhythm and language of the original.... Colon's remarkable pen-and-ink-and-watercolor illustrations have an old-masters quality that perfectly complements the narrative... This is a worthy translation of a beautiful and engaging book.

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Margarita Engle is the Cuban American author of many verse books, including a Newbery Honor winner, The Surrender Tree; a PEN USA Award winner, The Lightning Dreamer; and a verse memoir, Enchanted Air, winner of many awards, including an inaugural Walter Dean Myers Award Honor. Margarita's books have also received three Pura Belpré Awards and four Américas Awards, as well as a Jane Addams Award, International Reading Association Award, and the Charlotte Zolotow Award. In 2017, the Poetry Foundation named her the Young People's Poet Laureate. Margarita grew up in Los Angeles but developed a deep attachment to her mother's homeland during summers with her extended family in Cuba. She was trained as a botanist and agronomist before becoming a full-time poet and novelist. Raúl Colón was born in New York City in December of 1952 and moved with his parents in the 1960s to Caguas, Puerto Rico, where he studied commercial art. Colón is a versatile and acclaimed illustrator whose work has appeared in important national publications. An award-winning illustrator of over thirty books for children, Colón has received a Golden Kite Award, a Pura Belpré Award, and both a gold and silver medal in The Original Art show. He lives in New City, New York.

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