William Shakespeare

"How to introduce kids to Shakespeare--not just to the stories behind the plays but to the richness of his language and the depth of his characters. That's the challenge that Leon Garfield, a wonderful children's book writer, undertook to meet in his monumental and delightful Shakespeare Stories. Here are twenty-one of the Bard's plays, presented in what is not a series of dry retellings, but rather a refashioning of the dramas as stories, in a way...

An illustrated, abridged version of the Shakespeare comedy with background information and explanatory stage directions.

An illustrated, abridged version of Shakespeare's historical tragedy with background information and explanatory stage directions.

An illustrated, abridged version of the Shakespeare tragedy with background information and explanatory stage directions.