Classics in Graphics: Shakespeare's Much ADO about Nothing: A Graphic Novel

By Steve Barlow and Steve Skidmore

Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing like you've never seen it - or read it - before

Classics in Graphics: Much Ado About Nothing has been adapted into a graphic novel by expert authors, Steve Skidmore and Steve Barlow, with illustrations by Wendy Tan Shiau Wei. The famous battle of wits and misunderstandings reads like your favourite film on the page - as confusion abounds, compounds, and finally untangles.

Classics in Graphics is a series of graphic novels for children aged 10 plus that has inclusion at its heart, flinging wide the doors of literature for everyone to enter and understand. Including dyslexia-friendly design on every page, and encouraging readers to relate to these iconic roles - casting spells, falling in love, and winning duels.

Each graphic novel includes pitch-perfect illustrations for presenting the tragic, the romantic, the comedic, the magical, as well as:

- snappy simplified text presenting Shakespeare's themes clearly
- introductory materials to help set the scene and context of each story
- heaps of extra material at the back to keep the learning and fun going, including an exploration of themes in the play, the language, Shakespeare's inspirations, the publication and performance of the play in history, a timeline of Shakespeare's life and works, and much more

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1445197790
• ISBN13: 9781445197791
• Release Date: December 2026
• Publisher: Franklin Watts
• Length: 112 Pages
• Age Range: 10 to 14 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 9