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Designed to help students studying English in Years 11 and 12 to better understand the prescribed texts by including: plot summaries and a step-by-step guide to content and themes; assistance in locating appropriate quotations; key questions focusing on significant themes, and issues and characters.

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William Shakespeare's tragic play about The Moor of Venice, fully illustrated and retold for younger readers. Part of the Usborne Reading Programme, this book is written for fully confident readers who still need to gain the stamina needed for standard length books.

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This guide is part of a series designed to help students studying English in years 11 and 12 to better understand the prescribed texts, and to develop individual responses which will result in improved essays in answer to a range of typical senior examination questions.

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A comprehensive and remarkable collection of all of Shakespeare's plays retold for young readers. Plays include 'Macbeth', 'Romeo and Juliet', 'The Tempest', 'Twelfth Night' and more.

Illustrations: Full colour throughout

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The sun is rising, and its time for all Animal Sleepy Heads to get out of bed! These are the songs their parents sing to help them wake up and greet the new day.

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William dreams of acting and writing plays. This ambition takes him from the quiet country town of Stratford to the great playhouses of London, where his talent takes the city by storm... The life of Britain's most famous playwright told for children ready to tackle longer and more complex books.

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Looking closely at how picture books succeed in combining words (text) and pictures apprentices students into reading and producing multimodal texts.

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Sixty-seven familiar and not so familiar fables from Aesop, including the tortoise and the hare, the frogs who wanted a king, the lion who fell in love, and the donkey who danced on the roof.

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Karen Idlewild had two young sons. One died in a fire, the other, Jonah, survived in unusual circumstances. On a visit to Paris, and against the warnings of her father, Karen takes Jonah on a bizarre quest to meet Samuel Beckett, a writer whose philosophy she admires, and who, she is sure, can explain her tragedy in terms she can accept.

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In an attempt to bring Shakespeare to life, this story, which is one of a series, describes how Shakespeare wrote Richard III and how the play fits into his entire body of work. The story of the play itself is told in narrative without dumbing down the language or key themes.

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Some of the greatest love poems of all time are collected in an anthology of love, featuring the works of William Shakespeare, Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, and many others. Original.

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Children's author-illustrator Tomie De Paola describes his experiences at home and in school when he was a boy.

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Perhaps one of the most popular of Stevenson's works, A Child's Garden Of Verses, first published in 1885, is regarded universally as one of the greatest recollections of childhood in verse.

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From the trembling new-born calf in Season Songs to the gently sleeping one recorded in Moortown Diary, animal life as observed in the pages of Flowers and Insects, Elmet, River, Lupercal and Hawk in the Rain is seen afresh through the diversity and imaginative energy of this collected volume.

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An entertaining retelling of one of Shakespeare's best-loved comedies, beautifully illustrated by Serena Riglietti. - Young readers will treasure this gift edition, which is published in hardback with a ribbon marker. Ages 9+.

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The course of true love never did run smooth... A magical retelling of Hermia, Helen, Demetrius and Lysander's classic story - and of the impish fairy Puck, who meddles in their tangled web of love with hilarious consequences... With notes on Shakespeare and the Globe Theatre, and Love and Magic in A Midsummer Night's Dream.

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A wonderful retelling of Shakespeare's thrilling tale of love torn apart by history. With notes on Shakespeare and the Globe theatre and Love and Death in Anthony and Cleopatra.

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Deception is abound in this classic Shakespeare retelling. With Notes on Shakespeare and the Globe Theatre and Nature and Identity in As You Like It.