In this full color, 64 page book, students as young as seven show an amazing understanding and appreciation of Macbeth and its theme--the consequences of ambition and greed. It is written in rhyming couplets and illustrated by the sutends of Stratford's Hamlet Elementary School....

"The Tempest" is an exciting tale of jealousy and betrayal, magic and romance, repentance and forgiveness, and has all the elements necessary to ignite a young child's imagination and creative energy. By her use of rhyming couplets, Lois Burdett has once again succeeded in transforming Shakespeare's complex verse into a format readily understood by children.

Children's enthusiasm toward Burdett's adapted Shakespeare is evident in the wonderful drawings and anecdotes created by her Grade 2 and 3 students at Hamlet Elementary School in Stratford, Ontario. Together with the five other books in the successful and beautifully produced "Shakespeare Can Be Fun!" series, "The Tempest" will delight teachers, parents and children.

Lois Burdett has been bringing Shakespeare to her elementary school students for 20 years. She is in great demand throughout North America for her workshops where she teaches how to familiarize young children with Shakespeare. Among other commendations, Lois Burdett has received the Encyclopedia Britannica's National Award for Early Childhood Education. She has also been instrumental in prompting teachers to incorporate Shakespeare into the curriculum of early grades, helping foster a love of serious literature to last a lifetime....

". . . makes the Bard delightfully accessible to children as young as seven, though older kids and parents will get a kick out of it as well."--Owl Magazine. Full color....

A children's play in rhyming couplets....

Perhaps the best-known of Shakespeare's tragedies, Hamlet has all the ingredients for a gripping story: 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.

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