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A Shakespearean sonnet as a picture book?Children love rhyme and rhythm...so why not rhyme in a sonnet?This story about acceptance is short and sweet (140 syllables to be exact). Using the sonnet structure, a young ghost dresses up as a ghost in order to fit in with the other trick-or-treating children in the three quatrains, but all ends on a positive note in the rhyming couplet. Very young children will love the colourful illustrations and the gentle rhythm of iambic pentameter, while old...