Read Alert - Youth Literature

Today marks the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death. If you’d like to commemorate the bard with a YA twist, here’s a few adaptations and “inspired-by”s from Australian storytellers! (Click images for full size.)

Teaching Notes:

The Tempest: Undine – Penni Russon

Othello: Wildlife – Fiona Wood

Much Ado about Nothing: Faking Sweet – J. C. Burke

How to Keep a Boy from Kissing You – Tara Eglington (no teaching notes available)

Hamlet: Hamlet – Nikki Greenberg (scroll down to download a pdf file)

Hamlet – John Marsden

The Understudy’s Revenge – Sophie Masson  (no teaching notes available)

Macbeth: Macbeth and Son – Jackie French