MIGUEL DE CERVANTES : NOVELIST, POET, AND PLAYWRIGHTS (DON NARDO)

From Booklist
Seldom does a writer’s life story include heroism in sea battles, capture by the enemy, and failed attempts to escape military prisons, but Cervantes was no ordinary author. In tracing his subject’s life and literary contributions, Nardo doesn’t hype the drama but lets it arise from the story itself, and this particularly fine entry in the Signature Lives: Renaissance Era series is stronger for that restraint. Attractive book design, good paper, and well-chosen illustrations contribute to the biography’s finesse, while a time line, glossary, source notes, and bibliographies round out the presentation. Grades 6-9. --Carolyn Phelan
Review
The lives of Alice Walker and Miquel de Cervantes are presented comprehensively in these Signature Lives series books. Accessible text and colorful illustrations, art or maps are presented on tastefully decorated two-page spreads in each book. Colorful so --Pennsylvania School Librarians Association

Seldom does a writers life story include heroism in sea battles, capture by the enemy, and failed attempts to escape military prisons, but Cervantes was no ordinary author. In tracing his subjects life and literary contributions, Nardo doesnt hype the --Booklist