William Shakespeare And The Globe
School year: Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6, Year 7
No. of pages 48
Published: 2005
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This book is the winner of numerous awards
This book is part of a book series called Picture Mammoth .
This book is aimed at children at US kindergarten-5th grade.
This book has been graded for interest at 4-8 years.
There are 48 pages in this book. This book was published in 2005 by HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd .
With more than 60 fiction and nonfiction titles for children to her credit, Aliki has been delighting her many fans since her first book was published in 1960. Born in New Jersey, she now lives in New York City. Aliki's books for young readers include the Let's-Read-and-Find-Out titles Digging Up Dinosaurs, Fossils Tell of Long Ago, My Feet, and My Hands. Other nonfiction books by Aliki include How a Book Is Made, Mummies Made in Egypt, My Visit to the Aquarium, My Visit to the Dinosaurs, My Visit to the Zoo, Wild and Woolly Mammoths, and William Shakespeare & the Globe.
This book is in the following series:
This book has been nominated for the following awards:
Young Hoosier Book Award - Grades 4-6
This book was recognised in the Grades 4-6 category by the Young Hoosier Book Award.
South Carolina Childrens Junior and Young Adult Book Award
This book was recognised by the South Carolina Childrens Junior and Young Adult Book Award.
This book features the following characters:
John Shakespeare
This book features the character John Shakespeare.
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright and actor. He wrote plays, sonnets and verse and is regarded as one of the greatest writers in the English Language. Son of a glove maker, he grew up in Stratford-upon-Avon. He married Anne Hathaway and had three children, though one died very young. Shakespeare left Stratford to pursue theatre in London, where he acted at the Globe Theatre, wrote and was part owner of a playing company called 'The Lord Chamberlein's Men' (later 'The King's Men').
Mary Arden
This book features the character Mary Arden.
Anne Hathaway
This book features the character Anne Hathaway.
"Aliki takes on an ambitious project and completes it with a pervasive sense of history and a fine sense of style. This biography of Shakespeare is also an appealing history of the Globe Theater."-- "Booklist, " Editors' Choice 1999Aliki conveys biographical facts about the Bard through lively prose and meticulously executed drawings and paintings . . .A fresh, sometimes amusing, always intriguing look at William Shakespeare and Sam Wanamaker -- two men of different centuries, each with rare genius.CCBC Choices 2000
