Twelve of shakespeare's greatest tales come to life in this entertaining collection of short, lively stories specially adapted for young readers. Filled with tragedy, the stories — told with wit and grace — include romeo and juliet, the merchant of Venice, Cymbeline, Twelfth Night, and moral lessons, As You Like It, Hamlet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Pericles, The Tempest, The Taming of the Shrew, King Lear, humor, and The Winter's Tale.
Wonderfully transformed by the noted author of children's books, these classics are a great way to start a lifelong interest in the works of Shakespeare.
How to Teach Your Children Shakespeare
This book’s simple process allows anyone to impart to children the wisdom of plays like A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Twelfth Night, Macbeth, and Romeo and Juliet. Many of the best novels, plays, and films in the english language produced since Shakespeare’s death in 1616—from Pride and Prejudice to The Godfather—are heavily influenced by Shakespeare’s stories, characters, language, poems, and themes.
. Winner of the falstaff award for best shakespeare book, how To Teach Your Children Shakespeare is a foolproof, enormously fun method of teaching your children the classic works of William Shakespeare by Tony-Award winning playwright, Ken Ludwig. To know some Shakespeare provides a head start in life.
Broadway Books. His plays are among the great bedrocks of Western civilization and contain the finest writing of the past 450 years. In how to teach your children shakespeare, acclaimed playwright Ken Ludwig provides the tools you need to inspire an understanding, and a love, of Shakespeare’s works in your children, and to have fun together along the way.
Ken ludwig devised his friendly, easy-to-master methods while teaching his own children.
Tales from Shakespeare
Come wend your way along london’s thames river to the globe theatre, julius caesar, and the Tempest, where seven favorite Shakespearean plays are being performed! Marcia Williams brings to life Romeo and Juliet, The Winter's Tale, Macbeth, Hamlet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, making liberal use of Shakespeare’s rich dialogue.
Broadway Books. Candlewick.
A Stage Full of Shakespeare Stories
This lavish follow-up to a year full of Stories and A World Full of Animal Stories is the perfect gift for book lovers young and old. Candlewick.
Who Was William Shakespeare?
Young will left the town of stratford to pursue theater in London, where his work eventually thrived and made him a famous and wealthy man.
Leon Garfield's Shakespeare Stories New York Review Books Children's Collection
How to introduce children to shakespeare, not just to the stories behind the plays but to the richness of Shakespeare’s language and the depth of his characters: That’s the challenge that Leon Garfield, no slouch as a wordsmith himself, sets out to meet in his monumental and utterly absorbing Shakespeare Stories.
Leon garfield’s shakespeare stories is an essential distillation—a truly Shakespearean tribute to Shakespeare’s genius and a delight for children and parents alike. New york Review of Books. Broadway Books. Candlewick. Grosset Dunlap.
More Tales from Shakespeare
All the adoring fans of her Tales from Shakespeare will rejoice, and new ones will join in the applause. Kirkus reviewsgrab a seat as marcia williams wields her popular comic-book style to bring as You Like It, The Merchant of Venice, mischief, Antony and Cleopatra, and Richard III vividly to life while evoking the mood, King Lear, Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night, and manners of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Elizabethan theater.
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The Canterbury Tales Puffin Classics
Classics to Read Aloud to Your Children: Selections from Shakespeare, Twain, Dickens, O.Henry, London, Longfellow, Irving Aesop, Homer, Cervantes, Hawthorne, and More
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A Midsummer Night's Dream Companion: Includes Study Guide, Complete Unabridged Book, Historical Context, Biography, and Character Index
. New york Review of Books. We are a small, but growing company, and are adding titles every month. Read-Alouds. A midsummer night's dream is one of the greatest plays ever written--but let's face it. If you don't understand it, then you are not alone. Grosset Dunlap. Candlewick.
Michelangelo
. When he was born, michelangelo Buonarroti was put into the care of a stonecutter's family. Classic Literature. New york Review of Books. It certainly didn't come from his own father, a respectable magistrate who beat his son when he asked to become an artists apprentice. But Michelangelo persevered. He was obsessed with perfection and felt that everyone--from family members to his demanding patrons--took advantage and let him down.
Candlewick. His long and difficult association with pope julius II yielded his greatest masterpiece, the radiant paintings in the Sistine Chapel, and his most disastrous undertaking, the monumental tomb that caused the artist frustration and heartache for forty years. With her thoroughly researched, lively narrative and superbly detailed illustrations, Diane Stanley has captured the life of an artist who towered above the late Renaissance--and whose brilliance in architecture, painting, and sculpture amazes and moves us to this day.
Children's books 2000-NY Public Lib. Best books 2000 school library journal, top 10 youth art books 2000 booklist, books for youth editor's choice 2000 Booklist, Lasting Connections 2000 Book Links, and Notable Children's Trade Books in the Field of Social Studies 2001, National Council for SS & Child.