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Gathering together all the book reviews to make things easy for you!
Books on the Bard: Mr. William Shakespeare’s Plays
By Marcia Williams (Walker Books)
Colourful Storyboards of Seven Plays
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Great Reads Revisited: Plundering Paradise
By Geraldine McCaughrean (Oxford University Press)
A swashbuckling adventure set in the 1700s.
‘Cold gnawed on him like a rat.
Around him, the dun and grey blankets of the other beds rose and fell like the swell of a bleak, dirty sea.
Nathan had no idea what had woken him – he was still exhausted – and yet some upheaval had washed him up above the waterline of sleep. He was afraid, without knowing why.’
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Books on the Bard: Terry Deary’s Best Ever Shakespeare Tales
As Terry says in his introduction:
“Shakespeare wrote plays so people would be entertained.
He wanted people to have FUN!”
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Books on the Bard: Where’s Will?
By illustrator Tilly and author Anna Claybourne (Ivy Press)
A Shakespearean Where’s Wally!
Books on the Bard: Oxford Illustrated Shakespeare Dictionary
By David Crystal and Ben Crystal (Oxford University Press)
If you don’t know your bodkin from your falchion, this is a book for you!
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Books on the Bard: Brick Shakespeare
To help celebrate Shakespeare’s anniversary on 23rd April, we look at some interesting and fun children’s books surrounding the bard – and my, how many there are!