"Beware the Ides of March" says the soothsayer in Act I, Scene II of "Julius Caesar" by William Shakespeare. I doubt, dear reader, there is anything for you yourselves to be careful of on this date. However, in hallowing of that never-to-be-forgotten Shakespearian line, I put forward you stories inspired by the great Bard. "The Wednesday Wars," by Gary Schmidt, is a Newbery Honor young fiction book. Holling Hoodhood is the only Presbyterian pupil in a clique uncensored of Jewish and Catholic kids.
On Wednesday afternoons, while his classmates are in pious studies, Holling spends fix with Mrs. Baker. The tender schoolmistress assigns Shakespeare plays as analysis material.
Schmidt splendidly weaves Shakespearian words through a novelette following a unsophisticated fellow through adolescence. Susan Cooper masterfully transports readers back to Elizabethan London in "King of Shadows." Eleven-year-old Nat Field is no newcomer to tragedy. Acting is his leaking and when he is selected to gamble Puck in the American Company of Boys at the Globe Theater, he is ecstatic. Once in London, he becomes calamity and wakes up in the year 1599! Nat develops a heart-rending relation with the right Shakespeare.
Rich in sensory details of the time, Cooper's creative is a great for children erudition about Shakespeare. Mystery fans, this one's for you. "Hamlet, Revenge!" written in 1937, is a first-rate whodunit best-seller by Michael Innes. During an unskilful preparation of Shakespeare's Hamlet at an English manor house, a patricide occurs.
Police inspector John Appleby is called to charge in this over-the-top, purely constructed whodunit. The blockbuster made the Bloomsbury Good Reading Guides "100 Most Read Crime Novels." "Me and Shakespeare: Adventures with the Bard," by Herman Gollob, is a memoir.
After attending a Broadway manufacturing of "Hamlet," bygone copy editor Gollob imparts on a offensive odyssey of all things Shakespearian. The reader follows Gollob through adventures such as teaching a Shakespeare for Seniors rate and a holy expedition to the Globe Theater in London. "Fool: A Novel," by Christopher Moore received a starred study by Publishers Weekly and is not to be missed.
This romance based on "King Lear" features the King's buffoon named Pocket and his own starter Drool. Pocket seeks to fitting the hot water the aging Lear makes of his issue when he divides his realm between two of his daughters (sound familiar?). Moore offers a bawdy, uncouth and ache exact on a Shakespearian classic. If you want to give yourself a verified bonus impede by any Manatee County Public library and token out a copy of one of Shakespeare's plays.
There is nothing be partial to the sincere thing. Stacy Reyer, children's librarian in the Manatee County Public Library System, can be reached at Central Library: 748-5555; Braden River: 727-6079; Island: 778-6341; Palmetto: 722-3333; Rocky Bluff: 723-4821 and South Manatee: 755-3892.
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