Macbeth (A Shakespeare Story)

I purchased this book for the same reason as other reviews have done; my 14 year old daughter is reading Macbeth as part of her English GCSE and neither myself or my husband are familiar with the story to help explain it to her. Rather than throwing her in at the deep end with the Shakespeare language, we decided that this version would be helpful for her to at least get to grips with the story. I'm so pleased we did. We sat and read this story together in 45 minutes, stopping on occasions to clarify the direction of the story. It could be read more quickly, but we discussed things as we went along. The book has quirky illustrations and is split into short paragraphs with an easier language for younger people to understand. Would definitely recommend...

My daughter and I loved this easy to read , fun version. Perhaps too short and easy for a ten year old, but great introduction to Shakespeare. We also got Romeo and Juliet, equally good. We will get more, but might try the other childrens Shakespeare author.

It’s simple version with pictures for the kids to understand the story.

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My 10 year old grandson was doing Shakespeare as his topic at school and I was trying to find a way to "translate" Shakespeare's plays into an easy read for him. I didn't need to be worried at all as this story of Macbeth was an easy, exciting, and an enthralling read for both him and for me to read to him. Well worth the money to buy and have on the book shelf. We are now looking into buy some of the other books of Shakespeare's plays as we all love them.

I had read part of this with a child whom was reading to me and I got so hooked I wanted to read all of it for myself. Putting it into language that children understand was great for me

We used this book for our home Ed it was very good.easy to read

I was sadly disappointed with this purchase. Had it been my only purchase from this site, then I would not reuse. The other purchase was spot on (Amelia Jane). This book appeared fine by the cover, but the first page, and subsequent pages have printed horizontal lines through the text sporadically throughout the book. I was using this book as support only. Had it been my main source it would have been pointless. I suggest whoever was supposed to check this book, did not.

Decent overview of events.