Terry Deary's Best Ever Shakespeare Tales Award-winning author by Terry Deary (author), Mike Phillips (illustrator), and Michael Tickner (illustrator) (UK edition)

Read William Shakespeare’s best-loved plays like never before – a perfect mix of comedy, tragedy, magic and romance, retold for younger readers.
Terry Deary’s Best Ever Shakespeare Tales tells you more than just what happens in everyone’s favourite Shakespeare plays – it tells you the stories behind them.
From how the plays were originally staged to what Shakespeare himself might have thought of his work being taught in schools – there’s so much to find out.
Discover more out about:

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

King Lear

Twelfth Night

The Tempest

The Merchant of Venice

Romeo and Juliet

Julius Caesar

The Taming of the Shrew

Macbeth

Hamlet

An engaging, easy-to-use and informative collection of Shakespeare’s tales with humorous illustrations.

Product Details

Catalogue number

2442 in EU Primary Autumn 2025

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9780702308468

Publisher

Scholastic

Date published

June 3rd, 2021

Other details

192 pages

Condition

New

UK edition

Author/Illustrator

Terry Deary

Born in Sunderland in 1946, Terry Deary lives in County Durham with his family. Terry’s early life was spent in his father’s butcher’s shop and his career in the arts began in 1972 at Theatre Powys in Mid Wales. He has worked as an actor, theatre-director, drama teacher and television presenter. Terry still acts with roles in British films and has appeared in the Horrible Histories TV, stage-shows and feature film. As an actor, Terry began writing scripts. One of his most successful was The Custard Kid which became his first novel in 1977. Terry has enjoyed over 40 years as an author, including over 80 titles in Horrible Histories the world’s bestselling children’s history series. He is also an author of fiction and non-fiction for adults. Terry is an ambassador for his home city of Sunderland and was made a Doctor of Education at Sunderland University.