Little Master Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream: A Babylit Fairies Primer (BabyLit Classics)

Gorgeous way to introduce Shakespeare to children. Beautiful quotes, sweet illustrations and a pleasure to read out loud.

The illustrations are beautiful and captivating, not just for my 2.5 year old but me too. And I get a kick from her quoting Shakespeare at this age :-)

Such cute illustrations and robustly built book good for being thrown about by littles ones.

If you want to introduce your baby to Shakespeare this is not the best way. While it may be a board book it is not baby friendly with colours that aren't easy on baby eyes and text that is too flamboyant. I was dissapointed.

Good book for older toddlers and young children a good introduction to how language is used

A sweetly produced book with nice illustrations and some well-chosen Bardic words, all easy to manage and all easy to understand. It's perfect for introducing the very young to the colour and marvels of Shakespeare's language and imagery.The very first line (taken from 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' happens to be misquoted, if you refer to any properly edited version, but hey - who cares ? The intentions are good, and the under-fives are not into lit-crit. Yet.The offending line is:'Through the house give gathering light,By the dead and drowsy fire ...'Doesn't really make sense, does it ? It should read:'Through the house give glimmering light ...' which does.But better a slightly dodgy text than no text at all. It's risky to take your material from an internet download, just because it's freely available. (For the pedant, its parent and original is the once hugely popular and widely respected Globe Shakespeare of about 1864, which has been reincarnated in a couple of online versions. As a text it is simply not accurate.)Rant over. The book is pretty, and good value. And it might just sow the seeds of something big.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream LMS may be my favorite board book in the series! I love it so much! I love that the whole book is quoting Shakespeare. The illustrations are charming. The book introduces each fairy with an illustration and a quote from the play. There’s no story with a plot. If you love Shakespeare and want to pass on that love to the next generation, this is a cute and fun way to do it.

Libros bonitos, con bellas ilustraciones. Perfecto para una nena de 2-3 años de edad con buen vocabulario para empezar a familiarizarse con el idioma inglés, páginas gruesas y resistentes. Muy recomendados

yay!

This book is just gibberish. If a parent is a devoted Shakespeare fan, perhaps that parent would like it, but certainly no child would appreciate it.

First off, Shakespeare isn't for everyone, I've learned this well.However... This fairy primer book makes my heart happy! Apparently makes my little baby happy as well (nothing like that new innocent smile). So happy to share some Shakespearean goodness with my little one!Love that this fairy primer book doesn't just have "fairy cuteness", but has a little Shakespeare poetry in it. It has actual exerpts from the original play.It's also not a super muted down book, like the other in this collection, which teaches little ones to count pictures of story elements. Is this educational? Depends on your view of that. It does teach a unique, old/ forgotten, poetic language that not everyone can easily read.Images are childlike, and only displays fairy characters, with a bit of added "greenery".Feels like a book made to give babe's a taste of the classic ye old fae realm.Read some negative reviews on this, and just have to say.. This is for young children, and this is real Shakespeare.Kids can be more smart and clever than they usually let on.If you are able, read this with zest, and then watch little ones eyes light up like they are consuming words that taste like sprinkles & icecream!If you can't read Shakespeare/ aren't into it, don't expect to entice your child with how you read it to them. You honestly need to be sort of ready to read this, to appreciate this. From my perspective, this has a level all its own.Recommend getting the Anne of Green Gables one like these as well too, if your child enjoys big, lovely words.(Romeo and Juliet in imho, is overrated/ is over used/ is like "oldschool" Twilight=is Not the best message. Will even makes fun of his own R&J story in the original MSND with Pirimus and Thisby-Not in this book version). Shakespeare has so much more to offer the world, and MSND is some of his hearty and silly stuff!! :D (Even though most tend to highlight his tragedies).