Classical Education Meets the Real World
From Amazon:
This is a wonderful collection of six retellings of William Shakespeare’s best-loved plays – a perfect mix of comedy, tragedy, magic and romance, retold for younger readers. It is full of colourful illustrations from the Usborne Young Reading Programme. It contains the plays “A Midummer Night’s Dream”, “Hamlet”, “Macbeth”, “Romeo and Juliet”, “The Tempest”, and “Twelfth Night”. It also includes a section at the back on the life and times of Shakespeare.
My favorite part of Cycle 2 is SHAKESPEARE! And I totally lucked out because Cycle 2 is happening the same year I’m directing Challenge I–Shakespeare EVERYWHERE! I really like this book because it makes the plots simple to follow so the kids can grow with the stories and be ready for the real thing. Plus, the images include a lot of Shakespeare’s most famous words, so they are getting exposure to Shakespearean language even in a children’s book.
