Miguel's Brave KnightBy: Margarita Engle Illustrator: Ral Coln Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra finds refuge from his difficult childhood by imagining the adventures of a brave but clumsy knight. This fictionalized first person biography in verse of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra follows the early years of the child who grows up to pen Don Quixote, the first modern novel. The son of a vagabond barber surgeon, Miguel looks to his own imagination for an escape from his family's