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Child's Portrait of Shakespeare: Shakespeare Can Be Fun Lois Burdett

Child's Portrait of Shakespeare: Shakespeare Can Be Fun By Lois Burdett

Child's Portrait of Shakespeare: Shakespeare Can Be Fun by Lois Burdett


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For more than 20 years, Lois Burdett has been introducing Shakespeare to primary school pupils. Working with her students, she makes Shakespeare's plays come wonderfully alive for young eyes and ears. The texts are rewritten as simple rhyming verse and illustrated by her pupils' own drawings.

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Child's Portrait of Shakespeare: Shakespeare Can Be Fun by Lois Burdett

For more than 20 years, Lois Burdett has been introducing Shakespeare to primary school pupils. Working with her students, many as young as seven, she makes Shakespeare's plays come wonderfully alive for young eyes and ears. The texts are rewritten as simple rhyming verse and illustrated by her pupils' own lively colour illustrations of the characters and the action. Her books and workshops for teachers have captured the attention and imagination of parents, educators, and lovers of Shakespeare around the world.

Child's Portrait of Shakespeare: Shakespeare Can Be Fun Reviews

Can easily be used and enjoyed by teachers and students anywhere.--Anne Barry"Library Talk" (09/01/1995)
A wonderfully rich example of how young children absorb language and make it their own ... Highly recommended.-- (01/01/1996)
Combines a lively, often humorous biographical poem ... with even livelier and amusing color drawings.--Children's Literature

About Lois Burdett

Lois Burdett's success in introducing Shakespeare to children is reflected in her growing international reputation. Her books and workshops for teachers have captured the attention and imagination of parents, educators, and lovers of Shakespeare around the world, including the American National Council of Teachers of English and the International Reading Association. Among other commendations, Lois Burdett has received Encyclopedia Britannica's National Award for Early Childhood Education, Canada's Meritorious Service Medal, the Canadian Teachers' Federation's Hilroy Fellowship, and two writers' awards. Burdett's many speaking engagements have included the International Reading Association and the National Council of Teachers of English. Her books, magazine articles, presentations and media interviews are testimony to her strong influence in the education community, where she has also been instrumental in helping teachers to incorporate Shakespeare into early grade curricula.

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CIN0887532632G
9780887532634
0887532632
Child's Portrait of Shakespeare: Shakespeare Can Be Fun by Lois Burdett
Used - Good
Hardback
Firefly Books Ltd
2001-02-01
64
N/A
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