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36 of 37 people found the following review helpful:
Shakespeare for Children, February 6, 2000
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.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare, January 15, 2004
By A Customer
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.
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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
Great Book, April 22, 2000
By A Customer
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.
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13 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
See for Yourself..., August 19, 2001
By A Customer
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>.
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