After reading The Wednesday Wars by Gary Schmidt, my eleven-year-old wanted to read The Tempest. Usually whenever we read a Shakespeare play, we first read a picture book or graphic novel of it before reading the actually play. Below are two books we read.
William Shakespeare's The Tempest retold by Bruce Coville illustrated by Ruth Sanderson*
Beautiful paintings. Well-written story.
*Highly recommend.
Graphic novel-Graphic Shakespeare -The Tempest adapted by Daniel Conner illustrated by Cynthia Martin --I found that this version was more challenging to understand. Mr. Conner used the orginial language for most of the dialogue. The format/layout for some reason distracted me. If I had not read the above picture book, I would have been a bit lost! I do like graphic novels and normally enjoy the format.
The following books we may read later this year (my fourteen-year-old will be reading The Tempest this year for English):
-No Fear Shakespeare- The Tempest edited by John Crowther
-Updated Edition-Folger Shakespeare Library -The Tempest edited by Barbara A. Mowat and Paul Werstine
Soon we will be listening to the following audio of the play-
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