Shakespeare Stories by Leon Garfield, 0754070573, Lowest Book Price Finder

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excellent

This book is a really accessible way into Shakespeares stories. I used it with my year 8 class to introduce Shakespeare to them and they loved it. I will use this again, and with my own children.

Excellent Retellings.

These are stunningly well told versions of the plays.

They give not only the story, but a wonderful sense of the theatrical - you read and enjoy a visual sensation as well as the speech of Shakespeare (all the words 'spoken' are taken directly from Shakespeare's scripts).

Romeo and Juliet, for example, sweats in the heat of Verona. There is a fantastic image of wasps fighting! You go directly into the story - and moral considerations are there.

The pictures support the text well- giving yet another dimension to the book.

Forget Lamb!

I've used these stories in the classroom for many years now - partly because young people (11 through to much older!) relate to them -but also because I really enjoy re-reading them.

(There is a whole set of Abridged Shakspeare by Garfield too - and wonderful Animations done with Russian animators!)

This goes beyond the boundries no books dare cross.

This book took me and others over boundries no books dare go. Many have compared it to the works of J.R.R.Tolkien, and all have been right. I could not put this book down, and subsequently read 300 pages of it in 2 hrs. Phillip pullman dared talk about puberty(authors all seem too coy to talk about it), he even was not afraid to say god was a misrepresentation. This boldness really drew me to this book.

Fantastic end to a trilogy

Phillip Pullman has outdone himself with this book. It was a spell-binding read and one of those books that you simply don't want to finish. It wrapped up the trilogy very well and kept the theme of several different storylines running alongside very well. I am definitely going to read a few of his earlier titles based on this book.

Superb book, indispensable for kids and grownups alike

I was given the hardback edition of this book and, although I don't re-read it too often, it has a comfortable place on my bookshelf. Leon Garfield's stories keep the original flavour of the plays while being easy to read. Not by any means a dumbed-down version, and the illustrations are absolutely beautiful. I can't recommend this highly enough. If you know an imaginative 8 year old, they will probably love this. Lots of people think Shakespeare is scary - but if you're reading or watching the plays after having read Garfield's story version, you won't regret it. Even if you like Shakespeare anyway, this book is a great way to keep the stories fresh and accessible.

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