Review first posted on BookLikes: http://brokentune.booklikes.com/post/890334/y-is-for-yorick

This is a cute little volume summarizing Shakespearean characters in alphabetical order.
It is not very deep or laugh-out loud funny but it does contain rather lovely illustrations. ( )

This is an absolutely charming and beautifully illustrated little book that makes some cute and funny statements about Shakespeare's characters in an "ABC book" format. Unfortunately it's out of print (in physical format, anyway), but if you can find a copy in good condition, it's a great little gift for Shakespeare fans.

My more detailed review appears here: http://amysreviews.blogspot.com/2015/07/clever-is-as-silly-does.html ( )

Perfect for the Shakespeare lover. Quirky an spot-on. ( )

I won this title through the FirstReads program (thank you! thank you! thank you!) and finally picked it up to peruse last night. I'm so glad I did! Jennifer Adams did a great job with it. Many of Shakespeare's better-known (and a few lesser-known, even two who she claims "no one remembers". Reading it was a hoot! I'd quote my favorite parts, but that would be giving away more than half of the book...the ABC part, at least. The last section of the book is a brief (1-2 page) synopsis of the plays mentioned, twenty, I believe in all. It's a nice refresher if you haven't read them in a while (or never did). In all, I really enjoyed this book and actually will bring it into my classroom--though it definitely will stay on the teacher's desk and I'll only read very select parts out loud (like, for example, Julius Caesar, who was "the most important leader in the history of Rome. But he was not very good at choosing friends" or Cleopatra, who "cornered the market on drama queen for all time.") ( )