Type of bind: Paperback
EAN num: 9780439963619
ISBN number: 0439963613
Label: Scholastic
Manufacturer: Scholastic
Page Count: 192
Printing Date: August 20, 2004
Publishing house: Scholastic
Age index: Ages 9-12
Sale Popularity Level: 1484471
Studio: Scholastic
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Ten of Shakespeare's best-known stories are retold . with a twist! Hamlet - ten bodies litter the stage. Horatio is number one suspect . but is it an open-and-shut case? A Midsummer Night's Dream - strange things are happening in the woods. Puck mucks things up and Bottom makes an ass of himself. Puck reveals all. King Lear - eye-gourging, stabbing and poisoning . act out the play yourself - it's a laugh a minute! You've never read them like this before .
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I really like this book. It gives a whole new perspective on Shakespeare's plays that are very accessible to children and adults alike. I am a teacher and I had to write a unit on Julius Caesar this term. I found this book a great way to get an easy synopsis of the play and I will be using it in my teaching.
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Clever twist on the Shakespeare tales. Enjoyable and a lot of fun to read.
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This is a really good book. The usually tedious Shakespeare plays are written in a funny, modern sort of way and shows the good bits of the play. Terry Deary added a lot of funny elements in the story but it doesn't cover the true story so I could still learn Shakespeare! I rolled over laughing when I read this book!
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This book was very good. It gave life to Shakespeare. While I appreaciate the beauty of his words, sometimes Shakespeare is a little......stuffy. But not in this book! It tells Shakespeare in a language I can understand. Even my 7-year-old brother was reading it!!! This is definatly a good book for anyone to enjoy.
- MKL
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Not only does this book count down the top ten Shakespeare stories, but between each chapter there are the top ten lists like " Top Ten Shakepearian Actors" . My favorite one was a list of all the people that might have written the plays instead of Shakespeare. You should know that the book doesn't have the real plays, just the summeries and facts. The only problem I had was that there wasn't much detail- Like in Hamlet, it was just one of the characters saying how everyone died, and not a lot of detil of what else happened. But it was still a good book, and you'll really like it if you read Horrible histories.
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