- Hardcover: 48 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollins Children's Books (May 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 006027820X
- ISBN-13: 978-0060278205
- Product Dimensions: 31.3 x 24 x 1.1 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,699,419 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The story of William Shakespeare, his theatre and the rebuilding of the globe.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Another winner by Aliki!
9 April 2000
Format:Hardcover
Aliki's gift for clarity, humor and cleverness shine through this wonderful book. It is, like all Aliki's books, loaded with information, but manages not to overwhelm. You will find yourself coming back to this book again and again, examining the pictures and finding details you hadn't noticed before. A marvelous introduction to Shakespeare for mid- to older elementary children (and a visual delight for even younger readers!).
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
The Play's the Thing
30 April 2007
Format:Paperback
I bought this book for my 1st grader as an intro to Shakespeare. For my purposes this book contains too much extraneous information about Sam Wanamaker. His accomplishment of having the new Globe theatre built is amazing, but pales in comparison to Shakespeare's accomplishments, which I would rather hear about. We get to know details about "Will," but not anything about his plays except for some excellent representative drawings of representative characters. What my daughter has taken away from this book so far is that London Bridge really did fall down, Shakespeare died at age 52 and Marlowe at age 29, Cleopatra is associated with a snake, London had city walls, and Queen Elizabeth I came before the current queen, Elizabeth II. That's all useful foundation material, but we'll need another book to really sample Shakespeare.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Not exactly what I was expecting
7 Mar 2010
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
I was hoping for older/known sketches of the globe but instead the entire book is the illustrators drawings of things. I teach and was hoping for big pictures to show my class but it wasn't really like that. I think my real disappointment was that there were no actual pictures, just drawings of things that we really have pictures of.
To be fair, it is an interesting read. I enjoyed reading it. Nearly half the book is dedicated to the rebuilding of the 'modern' globe theater (a topic we don't really address much in class.)
So it just didn't serve my needs well but I'm not saying that it won't serve yours.
To be fair, it is an interesting read. I enjoyed reading it. Nearly half the book is dedicated to the rebuilding of the 'modern' globe theater (a topic we don't really address much in class.)
So it just didn't serve my needs well but I'm not saying that it won't serve yours.
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