Stories of Don Quixote : written anew for young people

Don Quixote is the greatest idealist in all of literature: a man so in love with tales of knightly valor that he dons rusty armor, names his horse Rocinante, and rides forth to right wrongs and rescue damsels in distress, accompanied by his loyal and vastly skeptical squire, Sancho Panza. James Baldwin's retelling distills the spirit of Cervantes' masterpiece into a narrative that younger readers can embrace, preserving the humor, the heartbreak, and the luminous absurdity of a man who sees windmills as giants and a country girl as a princess. The story follows their misadventures across the Spanish countryside, a chaos of tilted lances, misunderstood honors, and hard-won wisdom, as Don Quixote's gentle madness slowly gives way to harder truths. What makes this book endure is its tender treatment of dreams: how they're both foolish and necessary, how the world mocks them, and how they might matter anyway.