These two titles are the latest in the "Shakespeare Stories" series, which includes "Antony and Cleopatra", "Hamlet", "Henry V", "Macbeth", "A Midsummer Night's Dream", "Romeo and Juliet", "The Tempest" and "Twelfth Night". Two more titles, "Othello" and "Richard III", will be published in August 2006. All titles tie in with the national curriculum Key Stage 2.
This book features in the following series: Orchard Classics, Shakespeare, Shakespeare Stories .
This book is suitable for Key Stage 2. KS2 covers school years 4, 5 and 6, and ages 8-11 years. A key stage is any of the fixed stages into which the national curriculum is divided, each having its own prescribed course of study. At the end of each stage, pupils are required to complete standard assessment tasks.
There are 80 pages in this book. This book was published 2006 by Hachette Children's Group .
Andrew Matthews is a celebrated children's author, who has written over fifty books and has twice been nominated for the Smarties prize. Rene Weis is Professor of English at University College London and a distinguished editor and biographer of Shakespeare. Tony Ross is one of the UK s top illustrators of children s stories. His books are published in twenty-two languages. "
This book contains the following story:
As You Like it
Shakespeare drew upon tales of Robin Hood for his play As you Like It. Heroine Rosalind flees persecution from her uncles court and with her fellow exiles makes peace with the world, living out in the Forest of Dean. The play contains the famous line All the worlds a stage.