Manga Shakespeare

20 03 2008

To manga or not to manga? That is the question.  The indecisive Dane lives in the year 2107 on an Earth ravaged by global warming.

Manga Shakespeare is a series of graphic novels adapting from William Shakespeare’s plays. Drawing from inspiration from trend-setting Japan and using Shakespeare’s original texts, this series – edited by Richard Appignanesi and illustrated by leading Manga artists.

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Gary Eason, Education editor, BBC News website, writes an article describing the Shakespeare Manga phenomena. Click here.

Check out the books in the Library and let us know what you think.





Where the wild things are…

4 03 2008

Check out Maurice Sendak’s classic picture book which reminds us of ‘Where the wild things are…’

Thank you to Russell Lacey for sharing his animation.