Books : The Children's Shakespeare: As You Like It, Hamlet, King Lear, a Midsummer Night's Dream, Pericles, Romeo & Juliet, and the Winter's Tale
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Type of bind: Audio Cassette
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.912
EAN num: 9781574535082
Format: Unabridged
ISBN number: 1574535080
Label: Audio Literature
Manufacturer: Audio Literature
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 90
Printing Date: 2002-07
Publishing house: Audio Literature
Age index: Ages 9-12
Sale Popularity Level: 2061031
Studio: Audio Literature
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Seven of Shakespeare's most celebrated plays have been specifically adapted to introduce young listeners (and reintroduce adults) to his works. Based on the homespun storytelling of a literary turn-of-the-century mom, these classic retellings capture the drama and flavor of each original play, while simplifying plot and detail. Winner of a Grammy for Best Spoken Word Album for Children, included in this cassette version are: King Lear read by Jim Belushi, As You Like It read by Linda Hamilton, A Midsummer Night's Dream read by Robert Davi, Pericles read by Tate Donovan, Hamlet read by Bill Pullman, Romeo and Juliet read by Daphne Zuniga, and The Winter's Tale read by Patrick Macnee.
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This book is loads of fun! I bought it for my third grader, who is taking a field trip to see "Romeo and Juliet." I wanted him to have some familiarity with the storyline so he wouldn't be yawning cluelessly by the end of Act I. He loved it so much he wanted to discuss it! Even my husband who hates to read the stuff enjoyed it.
In short, the book is well done. It shortens the plays into a very long story-summary without the dramatic language that can be somewhat of a distraction. We're not talking Cliff's Notes here folks. This is just a handful of pages per play written on a level anyone can understand and enjoy. The book is not long so it's not intimidating. (Have you seen any books containing Shakespeare's complete works, lately? Mine could be used for a doorstop! It's huge!)
We paired this book with the comedy of "The Reduced Shakespeare Company's" version of Romeo and Juliet. My son is actually looking forward to the trip!
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I read and reread this book as a youth. The stories read much like classic fairy tales with tragedy, irony, and moral lessons. The writing is very accessible and encouraged me to seek out the full length "stories" in their original (play script) form once I was old enough (6th/7th grade) to really read them.
For a child who has a love of literature, these retellings of the great plays may start a life-long interest in Shakespeare's art (as they did for me).
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Romeo and Juliet
Felipe Gravier and Lorenzo Schiavo review:
We think that Romeo and Juliet tells the story of two star-crossed lovers whose families are in a terrible fight which prevents them from coming together. How far the couple will go to be together becomes the focus of the story. Of his richest poetry. The opening and closing choruses are some of his most outstanding work. Romeo's It is a brilliant love story but not much more. It still possesses however some wooing of Juliet is fabulously written. The Friar gets the best lines. Mercutio is one the best friends of Romeo. It is not as good as Shakespeare has written but it's still a fabulous book and up there with his best work. One part of the play we didn't like was that for the tow families get arrange there two kids had to die.
The English language wasn't finally finished so Shakespeare had the liberty to create words and play with the language, as he liked. That's why It was so difficult to understand what each character wanted to express so the teacher had to explain us each of that words and teach us all the words in that age and told us which were the words in the English of today.
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This book provides lots of Shakespeare's Storys like "A Midsummer's Night Dream" and "Hamlet" with a children's fairy tale twist. The storys are the same as Shakespeare's, but easier for children to understand. My favorite story was Hamlet because I had just seen the play. A while after we read Children's Shakespeare and it helped me to understand Hamlet better.
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Shakespeare is for kids and adults in E. Nesbit's creative mind. I always liked fairy tales, but I couldn't read Shakespeare very well. In Children's Shakespeare E. Nesbit turned his work into fairy tales without changing the story and morals. This book is not much like Nesbit's other books because it was written by Shakespeare, but I bet there are some simularities.
This book was a overall well writen book and I beleive E. Nesbit put a lot of hard work into her books in her life-time. I'm sure if she were alive now she would still be writing good books to this day.
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