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A simplified prose retelling of Shakespeare's play about the exiled Duke of Milan who uses his magical powers to confront his enemies on an enchanted island.Tags
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Disappointing. I don't feel the magic of the original story at all, and the art is not Sanderson's best. I have no idea if it's enough to get kids or newbies interested in the original, or even something closer to it. It does include a somewhat helpful author's note. And Coville did make a good model for Prospero.
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Shakespeare Retellings for Elementary Kids
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Bruce Coville was born in Syracuse, New York, on May 16, 1950. He spent one year at Duke University in North Carolina. Coville started working seriously at becoming a writer when he was seventeen. He was not able to start selling stories right away, so he had many other jobs, including toymaker, gravedigger, cookware salesman, and assembly line show more worker. Eventually, Coville became an elementary teacher, and worked with second and fourth graders. Coville married Katherine Dietz an artist, and they began trying to create books together. It wasn't until 1977 that they finally sold their first book, The Foolish Giant. They joined together on two other books after that, Sarah's Unicorn and The Monster's Ring, and followed them with Goblins in the Castle, Aliens Ate My Homework, and The World's Worst Fairy Godmother. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- William Shakespeare's The Tempest
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- Prospero
- Important places
- Prospero's Island
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