Shakespeare for Kids: His Life and Times, 21 Activitiesvolume 4

by Margie Blumberg, Colleen Aagesen, Blumberg, Margie

Book Overview

Kids can experience William Shakespeare's England and get their first taste of the Bard's sublime craft with this lively biography and activity book. Staging swordplay, learning to juggle, and creating authentic costumes like a flamboyant shirt with slashed sleeves or a lady's lace-trimmed glove bring the theater arts to life. Making a quill pen and using it to write a story, binding a simple book by hand, creating a fragrant pomander ball and a dish...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1556523475
• ISBN13: 9781556523472
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: Chicago Review Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 10.9" x 8.4"
• Age Range: 10 to 13 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 8

Customer Reviews

Shakespeare programs for children

I am very, very pleased with this book. I found all of the information on Shakespeare fascinating and the activities will be very good for the programs our art organization is offering.

I highly recommend this book for young and old.

It was great to revisit one of my favorite places in the world = Stratford-Upon-Avon = and to learn about London and the theatre in the 16th century. I loved this book and my teenage boys loved it, too. It is beautifully written and well researched and the activities are a lot of fun.

Wonderful introduction to the life and times of Shakespeare

If you like Shakespeare and you like kids, you'll love this book. I found this to be an original and colorful introduction the life and times of the Bard of Avon, which can be enjoyed by children as well as adults.

Shakespeare for anyone and everyone

Although this book is geared towards children, anyone can learn something new and interesting by reading this extremely informative and fun book. Not only can a younger reader learn to juggle like the queen's entertainers, but he or she can also learn how to write a sonnet or stage a sword fight. This book includes historical and political facts as well as what Shakespeare's life and the theater was like. Give this to any child and they will be quoting "A Midsummer Night's Dream", telling you about life in Stratford-upon-Avon and even staging their own productions!

This is a the best Shakespeare book-period.

i loved it. i have read it 6 times. i am a sophmore in highschool, and this book has helped me an A+ on my final exam in English history!! i am so happy!!!!!! it not only for people 9-12!!!!