William Shakespeare & the Globe - Hardcover

Aliki

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 006027820X ISBN 13: 9780060278205

Publisher: Harpercollins Childrens Books, 1999

Synopsis

A popular author/illustrator tells the story of the well-known playwright and of the famous Globe Theatre in which many of his works were performed, and includes a map of Elizabethan London, a chronology of his works, and more.

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Review:

"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

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harpercollins Childrens Books
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 006027820X
• ISBN 13: 9780060278205
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 48