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Best Shakespeare books for younger children

Edit The Guardian 25 Apr 2016
How to introduce the Bard without putting under 11s off for life? The Book Doctor has several cunning plans to keep Shakespeare fresh and thrilling ... Are there any versions of the plays which are suitable for six to 11-year-olds? ... Related ... Award-winning children’s author Leon Garfield rewrote Shakespeare’s original plays in versions that are close to the original spirit of the plays but also infused with his own powerful narrative voice....

400 years later, 4 ways to fall in love with Shakespeare

Edit CNN 23 Apr 2016
Kate Maltby. If you're a newcomer, close your eyes, forget the fear and listen to a pro recite each beat of his poetry ... Read More ... Four great plays. ... 2. 73 ... If you want to get your kids into Shakespeare, find them a copy of Leon Garfield's "Shakespeare Stories." Unlike most children's books based on the plays, Garfield's versions all maintain much of Shakespeare's original language, weaving his metaphors into the thoughts of his characters....

Book illustrations influenced by artist’s childhood in Vienna

Edit Canberra Times 15 Apr 2015
Wegner was twice shortlisted for the Kurt Maschler award. FRITZ WEGNER. Illustrator. 15-9-1924 – 15-3-2015 ... He was greatly admired by his peers, yet he remained deeply self-critical ... As a result he suffered a terrible beating ... He subsequently worked for other publishers, illustrating collections of fairy tales and children's verse and the works of some of Britain's best-known children's writers, including Leon Garfield and Ian Serrailler ... ....

Fritz Wegner obituary

Edit The Guardian 24 Mar 2015
Inventive and humorous illustrator of children’s books and much-loved teacher at St Martin’s School of Art. Fritz Wegner was hailed by fellow children’s book illustrators for his fluid draughtsmanship. Alan Powers ... For Allan Ahlberg he illustrated Please Mrs Butler (1984), The Better Brown Stories (1996) and The Little Cat Baby (2004), and for Leon Garfield The Strange Affair of Adelaide Harris (1971) and Guilt and Gingerbread (1984) ... ....

Karen McCombie: when I was 15 and desperately wanted to be Holden’s girlfriend from Catcher in the Rye

Edit The Guardian 20 Jan 2015
Site member MarsBar27 talks to the author of The Girl Who Wasn’t There and Angels in Training about ghosts, crisps, cats, time travel and what we can expect from her next…. Karen McCombie. I don’t believe in ghosts as such, but I do believe that buildings can sometimes have very particular atmospheres. Photograph ... It’s The Strange Affair of Adelaide Harris by Leon Garfield, a history-mystery comedy about two pretty obnoxious schoolboys ... ....

Summer books for older children: From Paddington to a bit of modern Grimm

Edit London Evening Standard 31 Jul 2014
He had in mind the classy stuff, but the principle is sound ... The in-house reader and I parted company, however, on Leon Garfield, whose John Diamond has just been reissued by Vintage (£6.99) and whose scary Smith is back, courtesy of Puffin’s ace new editions of its classics (£6.99). I think Garfield was a genius, with an effortless gift of conveying period atmosphere and menace; the in-house reader didn’t see the point of him ... Fab ... ....

Cohen Film Collection colors the world with the Black Jack: 35th Anniversary

Edit The Examiner 02 Apr 2014
More miraculous news from Cohen Media Group's Cohen Film Collection ... A rediscovered classic from realist master Ken Loach and one of the inspirations for Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom, Black Jack, based on Leon Garfield's novel for children, is a dark and complex adventure film set in brutal 18th century England ... ....

Can you recommend historical fiction for children and teenagers which isn't about the world wars?

Edit The Guardian 03 Mar 2014
In his vivid and atmospheric adventures such as Devil in the Fog and Smith Leon Garfield also stands up for the poor as he uncovers the class divides of the eighteenth century and the untrustworthy nature of some of those who look the most respectable. Garfield's characters, typically children living on the margins of society, learn to shift for ......
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