Classics in Graphics: Shakespeare's Hamlet: A Graphic Novel

Shakespeare's Hamlet has been adapted into a graphic novel by expert authors, Steve Skidmore, and Steve Barlow, with illustrations by Alessandro Valdrighi and Edu Rubio. Classics in Graphics is a series of graphic novels for children aged 10 plus that aims to include everyone in the world of literature. The novels feature dyslexia-friendly design, introductory materials, and extra material to keep the learning and fun going. The series includes Macbeth, The Tempest, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, and A Midsummer Night's Dream. Praise for the series has been given for its excellent production and binding, quality paper, and fantastic writing and illustrations. The books are easy to read and engage, and have a tactile production value that makes them fun to broach.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 112 pages
Publication date: 08 February 2024
Publisher: Hachette Children's Group

Shakespeare's Hamlet, like you've never seen it - or read it - before!

Classics in Graphics: Hamlet has been adapted into a graphic novel by expert authors, Steve Skidmore and Steve Barlow, with illustrations by Alessandro Valdrighi and Edu Rubio. The tragic mayhem swirls on the page - as Hamlet's life crumbles around him.

Classics in Graphics is a series of graphic novels for children aged 10 plus that has inclusion at its heart, flinging wide the doors of literature for everyone to enter and understand. Including dyslexia-friendly design on every page, and encouraging readers to relate to these iconic roles - casting spells, falling in love, and winning duels.

Each graphic novel includes pitch-perfect illustrations for presenting the tragic, the romantic, the comedic, the magical, as well as:

- snappy simplified text presenting Shakespeare's themes clearly
- introductory materials to help set the scene and context of each story
- heaps of extra material at the back to keep the learning and fun going, including an exploration of themes in the play, the language, Shakespeare's inspirations, the publication and performance of the play in history, a timeline of Shakespeare's life and works, and much more!

Plays available in the series include:

- Macbeth
- The Tempest
- Hamlet
- Romeo and Juliet
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing

Praise for the Classics in Graphics series:

Excellent production and binding, quality paper, and with fantastic writing and illustrations - an encouraging entry point to Shakespeare for my kids, and ease of dive-in for my own flighting or cursory storytelling engagement/whimsy [...] an excellent job converting challenging language and literary themes to make it very inclusive, smoothing ease of understanding.

Weight: 402g
Dimension: 244 x 172 x 10 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781445180052