Books in Players' Shakespeare series

Fall in love with this Shakespearean comedy about finding and losing love. A host of characters try to act as matchmakers for a young couple, while another couple is to be married. But everything doesn’t go as planned when a meddling villain schemes to ruin the wedding. As the third installation in the Play On Shakespeare series, this book explains and identifies literary devices with color-coded text and introduces key characters and settings in a playbill style introduction. It retells the Bard's tale following the original acts, and includes a beautifully illustrated map identifying the plays geographic setting, as well as a spread with background information about Shakespeare's life and times. All in 48 lively pages exploding with illustrations that enhance the story with detail and humor. Truly a unique picture book retelling of a literary classic.

Play on Shakespeare is a delightful introduction to some of the characters, themes, and literary devices that make Shakespeare so well-loved. The beautiful illustrations bring the play to life and the color-coded text highlights and defines literature elements in the story, both contributing to a rich, multi-layered experience. Come along as four young adventurers go exploring a magical meadow, only to find out there is more mischief afoot in this Fairy Wood than they might have expected. Hilarious mayhem abounds in this introduction to Shakespeare's classic comedy, "A Midsummer Night's Dream."

Play on Shakespeare is a delightful introduction to some of the characters, themes, and literary devices that make Shakespeare so well-loved. The beautiful illustrations bring the play to life and the color-coded text highlights and defines literature elements in the story, both contributing to a rich, multi-layered experience. Prospero and his lovely daughter Miranda live alone on the tiny island where they were marooned years ago, with only the island creatures for company. That is, until a powerful storm brings a boat full of strangers to the island. Magic and mystery fill the island and these pages as the story of Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” unfold in a delightful introduction to this classic play.