Cleverly arranged as a play, with an aside and acts one through five, the book features a quotation from one of Shakespeare's plays on every spread. Bite-sized chunks of text are interspersed with the lovely detailed illustrations Aliki is famous for, making what might be a difficult subject very accessible. In addition, there are charts listing Shakespeare's plays, a chronology of his life, sidebars with mini-biographies of significant people in his life, and a partial list of words and expressions he invented (gloomy, moonbeam, mountaineer, zany, and bated breath, among 2,000 others!). Aliki also devotes a special section to Sam Wanamaker, a 20th-century man with a dream to reopen Shakespeare's Globe playhouse in London.
ISBN 0-439-20736-3
Copyright 1999 by Aliki Brandenberg. All rights reserved. Published by Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 0-439-20736-3
Copyright 1999 by Aliki Brandenberg. All rights reserved. Published by Scholastic Inc.
