This is a great book to use with young readers. It introduces a classic character in an easy to read format with great picture support. It would be great to use with a history lesson where students can research the history of Don Quixote and where his story began.

Easy read-aloud introduction to Don Quixote's battle with the windmills.

That classic of Spanish and world literature, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra's n  Don Quixoten, is the source material for this amusing picture-book from author Eric A. Kimmel and illustrator Leonard Everette Fisher. Retold here is the episode in which Don Quixote, having gone mad reading his books full of the chivalry of old, sets out on an imagined knightly quest, eventually spying some windmills, and taking them for giants in disguise. His subsequent combat with those structures has given us the modern phrase, "tilting at windmills..."

One of the number of picture-book collaborations between Kimmel and Fisher - others include n  The Hero Beowulfn, n  The Three Princes: A Tale from the Middle Eastn and n  Blackbeard's Last Fightn - 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 n  Miguel's Brave Knight: Young Cervantes and His Dream of Don Quixoten, 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.

The abridgment of the story is more than made up for by the wonderful illustrations in this book.

This picture book exposes children to the original story of DON QUIXOTE quite well. I enjoyed reading it; I found it humorous. Quixote and Sancho are such endearing characters.