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Which is why you may need to bear in mind the same author's companion volume. It has the subtitle {{amazonurl|isbn=0712356347|title=Write Your Own Shakespearean Tales}}, and it's pretty much that, only not quite how you'd expect. I went into it thinking it a sequel too far, something too restrictive and constrained by going back so far to Shakespeare. Instead it's really quite open, and the stimuli here still ask all the right things of the young. It carries love letters, poetry of the paranormal, and the history plays mean we are asked for a right royal sports team talk, and not what Henry V usually delivers. You're not permanently immersed in the world of Elizabethan drama, but allowed to use that all-important open mind to write things that the modern audience for these books and their friends will be interested in.
You might perhaps want for that immersion to be stronger, for these books aren't quite as brilliantly educational as others. You learn a few Shakespearean terms and elements, but only rarely do you get anything defined, or taught anything beyond what the gentle look at quotes from our sources gives us. Some times the page could be better designed – too often to my mind the 'top tips' come at the foot, way after you've rushed into writing your masterpiece. The books aren't perhaps as universally in tune to please all educationalists – the first one here hardly gets more exotic than Neverland, and Michael Morpurgo setting a novel in rural Australia. If anything there was not quite enough old Will in the second book to read to learn from, so I'd give it four strong stars on its own. For the lead title, if it had less of an I did feel almost like knocking a touch off for the old-school, canonical style and when it could have had a more exotic flavour. But like I say, the artwork seems more geared to the teacher and adult than perhaps the target audience, I could have seen myself giving it fiveso this has a Reithian quality that is one more thing you might not expect. As it is , I would easily imagine people turning to these quite regularly for writing their own vivid, engaging tales courtesy of some of the world's best ready-made vivid, engaging tales, and so the highest commendation stands. The author's social media suggests there will be at least four of these at some point in time, and long may they continue to be this quality..
I must thank the publishers for my review copies.

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