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Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare for Children: Being a Choice Collection from the World's Greatest Classic Writer Wm. Shakespeare

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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.

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.

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.

This book is an excellent way to introduce children or adults to the most popular plays by Shakespeare. It is a collection of 20 retellings. It allows you to understand the story without the challenging spelling and vocabulary of the original plays. This edition also contains a pronunciation guide and a famous quotations section. E. Nesbit is a delightful story teller. My children love to be read these stories.

I am very pleased with the book. I purchased it for my granddaughter who is 11 years of age. The stories are short and the pictures are great. It is a book that can be read and shared by the whole family.

I purchased a used book and it was very clean and the price was super. Why pay the higher price if you don't know if you will like it. Thank you Amazon for giving me choices.

This little gem of a book is perfect for any fan of Shakespeare. It's also a great way to introduce younger kids into the world of the Bard. A variety of famous plays are abridged and rewritten for children, always staying true to the stories, characters, and tone of Shakespeare. The illustrations are gorgeous, as well.

This book is good for historical value and amusement, but if seeing a Timon of Athens who looks like he waltzed out of a fairy story is bothersome to you, don't buy it. E. Nesbit is firmly of the "Shakespeare is the greatest moralist since Jesus Christ" school, and the plots have been tailored to fit this characterization. The tales have so little to do with actual Shakespeare that your own memorial reconstructions would be more accurate and entertaining. But you can check it out for yourself at <http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/books/lit/Shakespeare/BeautifulStoriesfromShakespeare/toc.html>.