The Shakespeare Timeline Wallbook: Unfold the Complete Plays of Shakespeare One Theater, Thirty-Eight Dramas!
No. of pages 26
Published: 2017
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This book is part of a book series called Us Timeline Wallbooks .
There are 26 pages in this book. This book was published in 2017 by What on Earth Publishing Ltd .
Andy Forshaw graduated in graphic design and illustration from London's Central Saint Martins college, and has worked on numerous online and publishing projects. Since 2010, Andy has created more than 5, 000 illustrations for children's books. When not illustrating, Andy can be found exploring the countryside on his bike. He lives in London. Patrick Skipworth studied Classics and Linguistics in London and the Netherlands, connecting the dots between ancient cultures, their histories and their languages. Today, Patrick is a children's book editor, but likes to write his own stories when he can. Some of his favourite topics are prehistoric bugs, super-intelligent robots and legends from far away places. Christopher Lloyd graduated with a double-first class degree in history from Cambridge University. Christopher became Technology Editor with The Sunday Times newspaper in London and is now a bestselling author of more than fifteen books on world history including What on Earth Happened? (Bloomsbury), the series of What on Earth Timeline Wallbooks, Absolutely Everything! and more. He is in great demand as a lecturer and public speaker throughout the world, including at TEDx talks, conferences, educational seminars, museums, festivals and schools.
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"Thanks to its uncommon format, this What on Earth? Wallbook is a tremendously engaging resource on a well-covered topic: the collected works of William Shakespeare. Engrossing and packed with information, this interactive book will capture fresh interest for the world's most beloved playwright." (Booklist) * Booklist *
"The thirty-eight plays of William Shakespeare that are featured in The Shakespeare Timeline Wallbook are presented as masterpieces simultaneously performed in front of children ages 6 to 14 on a 6-foot fold-out timeline set in the iconic Globe Theatre. Kids in grades 1 through 9 can spot the ghosts, hunt for the murderers, discover the poison, and revel in Elizabethan romance as each play unfolds. Concise plot summaries, key textual quotes, and carefully illustrated scenes help pinpoint the action. The timeline also features essential moments in Shakespeare's life providing a unique narrative context to the works of the world's favorite bard. The Shakespeare Timeline Wallbook also includes an easy-to-read chronicle that reports on more than forty seminal moments from the timeline in the style of a newspaper. Other features include a page of letters to the editor, a fifty-question quiz, and pocket magnifier. Developed in partnership with the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, The Shakespeare Timeline Wallbook is unreservedly recommended and certain to be an enduringly popular addition to family, school, and community library collections." (Children's Bookwatch, Reviewer's Choice)
"This foldout book expands to create a six-foot-long removable timeline of Shakespeare's life, featuring panels devoted to his plays. Cartoon figures, drawn in a clear-line style, appear in key dramatic scenes, accompanied by quotations and summaries that readers can examine through an included magnification sheet (on its own, the font used for the recaps and context is almost comically small). Supplementing the timeline and its miniature theatrical stagings is the Wallbook Chronicle, which is designed to look like a broadsheet newspaper filled with fictitious Shakespeare-related stories ("Stars crossed as West Side lovers take a tragic turn," reads the headline for a faux review of West Side Story). A selection of sonnets, letters to the editor from across the centuries, and a quiz round out this engaging resource for readers just getting to know Shakespeare and his work." (Publishers Weekly) * Publishers' Weekly *
