The Horn Book Guide

LITERATURE

McKeown, Adam, Reteller

Hamlet

80 pp. | Sterling | September, 2003 | Trade ISBN 1-4027-0003-2 $$14.95

(3) 4-6 Young Reader's Shakespeare series. Illustrated by Sally Wern Comport. This accessible prose retelling of one of Shakespeare's best known plays faithfully retains all of the important events and characters of the original play and keeps some of the Bard's most famous lines exactly as he wrote them. For students not ready to tackle the original, this is an able introduction to the brooding prince of Denmark. Paintings in dark tones add atmosphere to the book.

Reviewer: Carolyn Shute