Posts Tagged ‘Shakespeare’

Happy Birthday, Will Shakespeare!

Posted: April 19, 2009 by jdapier in Links, The Loft, Young Adult Books
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  April 23rd is Shakespeare’s birthday and The Loft is celebrating The Bard’s 445th with this great list of books! Here you’ll find modern novel re-tellings of Shakespeare plays, stories inspired by the great scribe’s life (and the lives of his characters), Manga adaptations, as well as gripping non-fiction titles that explore his creative genius, biography, and thematic [...]

Manga Shakespeare In The Loft

Posted: April 5, 2009 by jdapier in Links, The Loft, Young Adult Books
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Feeling lost in Shakespeare’s verse? Don’t have a chance to see the plays performed on stage? The Loft now has a selection of Shakespeare’s plays in Manga form! Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hamlet, Julius Caesar, The Tempest, Romeo and Juliet – the Bard’s immortal poetry and stories come alive in stunning illustrations and shrewd [...]

The Juliet Club

Posted: September 12, 2008 by Christie in Loft Book Reviews, Young Adult Books
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The Juliet Club by Suzanne Harper (Greenwillow, 2008 ) You win a Shakespeare essay contest in high school. The prize? A month-long summer trip to Verona, Italy, to study Romeo and Juliet. But under the sporadic direction of Professoressa Francesca Marchese, this is no ordinary seminar spent annotating and dissecting Shakespearean text, to which Kate Sanderson is [...]

Saturday Afternoon Movie

Posted: April 26, 2008 by Christie in Programs, The Loft
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April 26, Saturday, 2 pm. Saturday Afternoon Movie! 10 Things I Hate About You. Pretty and popular Bianca wants a date. But her father won’t let her date until her older, odious sister, Kat, has a date of her own. Bianca’s desperation for romance turns into a convoluted scheme sure to entertain. A modern day [...]