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Leon Garfield's Shakespeare Stories

Leon Garfield's Shakespeare Stories( )
Author: Garfield, Leon
Illustrator: Foreman, Michael
ISBN:978-1-59017-931-4
Publication Date:Nov 2015
Publisher:New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The
Imprint:NYR Children's Collection
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $27.95
Book Description:

How to introduce children to Shakespeare, not just to the stories behind the plays but to the richness of Shakespeare's language and the depth of his characters: That's the challenge that Leon Garfield, no slouch as a wordsmith himself, sets out to meet in his monumental and utterly absorbing Shakespeare Stories. Here twenty-one of the Bard's plays are refashioned into stories that are true to the wit, the humor, the wisdom, the sublime heights, the terrifying depths, and...
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Book Details
Pages:576
Detailed Subjects: Juvenile Nonfiction / Drama
Juvenile Nonfiction / Literary Criticism & Collections
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6.33 x 8.81 x 1.27 Inches
Book Weight:1.8 Pounds
Author Biography
Garfield, Leon (Author)
Michael Foreman was born in Pakefield, Suffolk on March 21, 1938. At the age of fifteen, Foreman began to study art. His first children's book was published while he was still a student. He earned his M. A. from the Royal College of Art and since then, has written and/or illustrated many children's books.

After leaving art school Michael traveled all over the world making films and television commercials. He has also worked on magazines, book jackets, animated films, and TV ads. He even worked for the police, sketching criminals described by witnesses.

Foreman has won the Kate Greenaway Award twice, the Smarties Book Prize, The Kurt Maschler Award, the Children's Book Award, the Bologna Book Prize and the Francis William's Illustration Award twice.

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