Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #173510 in Books
• Published on: 1997-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 320 pages

Customer Reviews

Shakespeare for Children
Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare for Children provides a rich introduction to 20 plays of the Bard. The preface states: "But Shakespeare wrote for grown-up people... Hence this volume. To reproduce the entertaining stories contained in the plays of Shakespeare, in a form so simple that children can understand and enjoy them, was the object had in view by the author..."

E. Nesbitt, author of Five Children and It, does just that. Most of these retellings are 10 to 15 pages long. Read one of Nesbitt's beautiful stories before attending a performance of a play or before participating in a reader's theatre.

The last chapter in this book is a collection of quotations from Shakespeare. This provides fodder for recitations and/or copy work.

Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare
My copy has been a family treasure, thus read aloud over and over. This is an excelent book to read aloud with families and children. The many small illustrations aid the interest of the young reader and listener. E. Nesbit creates an excellent transition between today's spoken English and the language you will hear in Shakespeare's plays.

Great Book
I think that this is a great book to help children and anyone else to understand Shakespeare. It is written in clear easy to understand text and is a great way to get the basic story line of Shakespeare's most poupular plays. I do have one complaint and that is the publisher's spelled E. Nesbit's name wrong they spelled it Nesbitt when it is really Nesbit. It is a good thing E. Nesbit isn't around anymore because I don't think she would appriciate it, I know I wouldn't.