What On Earth? Wallbook Timeline Of Shakespeare
A two metre fold-out timeline that showcases the plots of all Shakespeare’s plays.
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Books on the Bard: Explore! Shakespeare
Explore! Shakespeare
Not just about Shakespeare!
Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Award Shortlists 2017
The shortlists for the Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals for 2017 have now been released, and they present us with a host of new and familiar faces.
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Books on the Bard: Mr. William Shakespeare’s Plays
By Marcia Williams (Walker Books)
Colourful Storyboards of Seven Plays
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Great Reads Revisited: Plundering Paradise
By Geraldine McCaughrean (Oxford University Press)
A swashbuckling adventure set in the 1700s.
‘Cold gnawed on him like a rat.
Around him, the dun and grey blankets of the other beds rose and fell like the swell of a bleak, dirty sea.
Nathan had no idea what had woken him – he was still exhausted – and yet some upheaval had washed him up above the waterline of sleep. He was afraid, without knowing why.’
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Books on the Bard: Terry Deary’s Best Ever Shakespeare Tales
As Terry says in his introduction:
“Shakespeare wrote plays so people would be entertained.
He wanted people to have FUN!”
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Books on the Bard: Where’s Will?
By illustrator Tilly and author Anna Claybourne (Ivy Press)
A Shakespearean Where’s Wally!
Books on the Bard: Oxford Illustrated Shakespeare Dictionary
By David Crystal and Ben Crystal (Oxford University Press)
If you don’t know your bodkin from your falchion, this is a book for you!
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Books on the Bard: Brick Shakespeare
To help celebrate Shakespeare’s anniversary on 23rd April, we look at some interesting and fun children’s books surrounding the bard – and my, how many there are!
Costa Children’s Book Award 2016
The winners of the Costa Book Award categories have been announced, and Young Adult author Brian Conaghan has taken the Children’s Book prize with his third novel The Bombs That Brought Us Together.