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My daughter and I loved these books by Lois Burdett when she was younger. What a wonderful introduction to Shakespeare!
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Hamlet for Kids
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Perhaps the best-known of Shakespeare's tragedies, Hamlet has all the ingredients for a gripping revenge and power, familial love and betrayal, dramatic sword fights, dark spooky scenes. Once again Lois Burdett has woven her own brand of magic by transforming Shakespeare's complex verse into rhyming couplets. She has created a version of Hamlet especially for children, even as young as seven, and one that readers of all ages will enjoy. At the appropriately named Hamlet Elementary School in Stratford, Ontario, where Burdett has taught for over 20 years, her students have created wonderful drawings of Hamlet to illustrate Burdett's fluid rhymes. The students' interpretations are vivid evidence of Burdett's clever ability to bring Shakespeare's complex characters and intricate plots to life for young people.
64 pages, Paperback
First published January 13,2000
This edition
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64 pages, Paperback
- Published
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March 4, 2000 by Firefly Books
- ISBN
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9781552095300
- ASIN
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1552095304
- Language
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English
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If you aren’t opposed to a little stabbing and poisoning in your picture books, this thoroughly engaging and accessible retelling of Shakespeare’s Hamlet makes for a very exciting storytime.
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Great series of Shakespeare adaptations for kids as young as 7. Illustrated by kids.
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I am a big Shakespeare fan & a fan of the Kenneth Branagh productions of Shakespeare's plays. He has written the Foreward to this book which is all the recommendation I need. Lois Burdett has re-written Hamlet in rhyming couplets that are kid-friendly (& adults-who-don't-get-Shakespeare-friendly) & the illustrations are all by school-age kids from ages 7-10. They are AMAZING! There are also short little kid "stories" that interpret the actions in the play in their own words (Elizabethan style). There's lots of humor--even in the tragedy of it all. I absolutely loved it & read it aloud to make it even more enjoyable. This book is part of the Shakespeare Can Be Fun series & I am delighted to know there are several more plays in it. I can't wait to read them!
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These really are fun to read with my 3rd grader! Learning new things everyday with him!
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read this for drama class lol
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Perfect retelling for a 3rd grader. Quite gripping:-).
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An adorable, original, enthralling treatment of the most masterful of all plays by 2nd and 3rd grade students.
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