Wonderfully engaging retellings of famous Shakespeare playsAll with dramatic colour pictures and plenty of teaching notesEach book offers a fresh slant on the well-known story it tellsA compelling route into Shakespeare, sure to hook children inPearl/Band 18 books offer fluent readers a complex, substantial text with challenging themes to facilitate sustained comprehension, bridging the gap between a reading programme and longer chapter books. Text type: Fiction from the English literary heritage.