Tuesday, May 04, 2010

Loving Will Shakespeare

by Carolyn Meyer
Hennepin County Library audioCDs 6.5 hours
read by Katherine Kellgren

Interesting premise - since we know so little about William Shakespeare and his wife Anne Hathaway, what might their relationship have been like? But this story disappointed me. It felt as though it took forever to build to a climax and then was over far too quickly. What a sad story. My favorite part was the budding romance between Agnes and Will. I liked when she had words with Joan and Joan Little.

It would be interesting to include this title with the middle ages books that Sarah is having kids read. Some of the historical details were truly interesting. Overall, though, I wouldn't recommend this to my middle school readers.

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