From the publisher:
Twenty stories from Shakespeare retold in lively prose. The author makes the complex language of Shakespeare's greatest plays accessible to young children by relating the stories that form the core of the plays. Her graceful, vivid retellings are the perfect introduction to Shakespeare's works.
Table of Contents:
1. A Brief Life of Shakespeare
2. A Midsummer Night's Dream
3. The Tempest
4. As You Like It
5. The Winter's Tale
6. King Lear
7. Twelfth Night
8. Much Ado about Nothing
9. Romeo and Juliet
10. Pericles
11. Hamlet
12. Cymbeline
13. Macbeth
14. The Comedy of Errors
15. The Merchant of Venice
16. Timon of Athens
17. Othello
18. The Taming of the Shrew
19. Measure for Measure
20. Two Gentlemen of Verona
21. All's Well That Ends Well