Children's enthusiasm toward Burdett's adapted Shakespeare is evident in the wonderful drawings and anecdotes created by her Grade 2 and 3 students at Hamlet Elementary School in Stratford, Ontario. Together with the five other books in the successful and beautifully produced "Shakespeare Can Be Fun!" series, "The Tempest" will delight teachers, parents and children.

Lois Burdett has been bringing Shakespeare to her elementary school students for 20 years. She is in great demand throughout North America for her workshops where she teaches how to familiarize young children with Shakespeare. Among other commendations, Lois Burdett has received the Encyclopedia Britannica's National Award for Early Childhood Education. She has also been instrumental in prompting teachers to incorporate Shakespeare into the curriculum of early grades, helping foster a love of serious literature to last a lifetime.

The Tempest for Kids

FROM THE PUBLISHER

The Tempest is an exciting tale of jealousy and betrayal, magic and romance, repentance and forgiveness, and has all the elements necessary to ignite a young child's imagination and creative energy. By her use of rhyming couplets, Lois Burdett has once again succeeded in transforming Shakespeare's complex verse into a format readily understood by children.

Children's enthusiasm toward Burdett's adapted Shakespeare is evident in the wonderful drawings and anecdotes created by her Grade 2 and 3 students at Hamlet Elementary School in Stratford, Ontario. Together with the five other books in the successful and beautifully produced Shakespeare Can Be Fun! series, The Tempest will delight teachers, parents and children.

FROM THE CRITICS

Vancouver Sun

The cover of this book announces "Shakespeare can be fun!" I never doubted it for a minute ... The text of the play is here with many original phrases joyfully intact, in rhyming couplets that retain the exuberant language play of the original. Bright, simple illustrations are provided by the students, many of them eight or nine years of age. (The Vancouver Sun, March 4, 2000)

Vancouver Sun

Many original phrases joyfully intact, in rhyming couplets that retain the exuberant language play of the original.

Susan Perren

The couplets present Shakespeare in shortened form ... in a highly accessible way. —Globe & Mail

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Many original phrases joyfully intact, in rhyming couplets that retain the exuberant language play of the original.

Napra Review

Burdett, an elementary school teacher in Ontario, Canada, has been introducing children to the bard for some 20 years, and their enthusiasm is clearly evident in the drawings and descriptions that illustrate the pages of this rhyming couplet rewrite. Burdett simplifies the wording while carefully preserving the flavor of Elizabethian speech -- and even some of the vocabulary.