This book is a wonderful gift for young children, which retells some of Shakespeare's best known and loved plays in story form. Featuring the beautiful illustrations of Elena Temporin, it includes a synopsis, quotations and list of characters from every play alongside information about Shakespeare's work, life and poetry, to put the plays into the context. It tells the stories of ten of Shakespeare's most popular plays: ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'', ''As You Like It'', ''A Winter's Tale'', ''Hamlet'', ''Macbeth'', ''Romeo and Juliet'', ''The Merchant of Venice'', ''The Taming of the Shrew'', ''The Tempest'', and ''Twelfth Night''.