William Shakespeare & the Globe

by Aliki, Aliki (Illustrator)

Overview

With her characteristically sprightly words and pictures, Aliki brings Shakespeare's life, times, and legacy to life in this highly acclaimed information-packed treasury that is truly for readers of all ages. This nonfiction picture book is an excellent choice to share during homeschooling, in particular for children ages 6 to 8. It’s a fun way to learn to read and as a supplement for activity books for children

From Hamlet to Romeo and Juliet to A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare's celebrated works have touched people around the world. Aliki combines literature, history, biography, archaeology, and architecture in this richly detailed and meticulously researched introduction to Shakespeare's world-his life in Elizabethan times, the theater world, and the Globe, for which he wrote his plays. Then she brings history full circle to the present-day reconstruction of the Globe theater. .

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780064437226
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	08/08/2000
Series:	Trophy Picture Books (Paperback)
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	48
Product dimensions:	9.00(w) x 12.00(h) x 0.12(d)
Lexile:	AD850L (what's this?)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

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.

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.

Table of Contents

	[Aside]	9
	Prologue	11
Act 1
Scene 1	Childhood	12
Act 2
Scene 1	London	14
Scene 2	The Queen	17
Scene 3	The Theatre	20
Act 3
Scene 1	Company and Rivals	22
Scene 2	Plague and Poems	24
Scene 3	Dismantling	25
Act 4
Scene 1	The Globe	26
Scene 2	Stratford Again	29
Scene 3	Fire	31
Scene 4	Changing Times	32
Scene 5	Good-bye, Will	33
Act 5
Scene 1	Hello, Sam	35
Scene 2	Uncovering	37
Scene 3	Building	38
Scene 4	Sam's Globe	42
	Shakespeare's Works	44
	Chronology	45
	Words and Expressions	46
	Sites to Visit	48

Editorial Reviews

Aliki 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

Aliki 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

William Shakespeare and the Globe is an interesting picture-book compilation of the facts of Shakespeare's life, loosely arranged in the structure of a play...This is a terrific book to spark a new interest or to satisfy an already established thirst. It can also serve as a tourist guide with its list of current-day sites to visit in London and Stratford-upon-Avon.
— Riverbank Review

Mary Moore Easter

For Aliki (Marianthe's Story, 1998, etc.), the story of the Globe Theatre is a tale of two men: Shakespeare, who made it famous, and Sam Wanamaker, the driving force behind its modern rebuilding. Decorating margins with verbal and floral garlands, Aliki creates a cascade of landscapes, crowd scenes, diminutive portraits, and sequential views, all done with her trademark warmth and delicacy of line, allowing viewers to glimpse Elizabethan life and theater, historical sites that still stand, and the raising of the new Globe near the ashes of the old. She finishes with a play list, and a generous helping of Shakespearean coinages. Though the level of information doesn't reach that of Diane Stanley's Bard of Avon (1992), this makes a serviceable introduction to Shakespeare's times while creating a link between those times and the present; further tempt young readers for whom the play's the thing with Marcia Williams's Tales From Shakespeare (1998). (Picture book/nonfiction. 7-10)

Kirkus Reviews