Friday 6 August - Friday 1 October

Hear ye, Hear ye! All ye people, 5-14 years old!

Join the Shakespeare Time Travellers Quest in August and September. Participate in online and onsite activities for your chance to win one of five wonderful prize packs thanks to Critical Stages Touring, The Listies and Allen & Unwin Books.

How to enter:

• Download the Shakespeare Time Traveller’s Passport and select one or more great ‘travel stop’ activities to complete.
• Collect the unique codeword or code number for every new activity you complete.
• Submit your online competition entry by Friday 1 October at 5 pm with your contact details, the activity you completed plus unique code word or number.
• You can increase your chances of winning by submitting one entry for every new ‘travel stop’ you complete in the Shakespeare Time Traveller Passport. (Limit of one entry per activity, per person).
• Scroll down to find our Shakespeare Book Blog or select any travel stop below to get started!
  Travel Stop #1 - Theatre, Book and Video Reviews
  Travel Stop #2 - Literary Legends Library Quiz
  Travel Stop #3 - 'Classic Stories' Puppet Theatre Workshop
  Travel Stop #4 - Comic Quote Totes - CANCELLED due to COVID restrictions
  Travel Stop #5 - Hamlet: Prince of Skidmark - CANCELLED due to COVID restrictions
  Travel Stop #6 - Meet the Characters Library Trail - CANCELLED due to COVID restrictions

Competition Entry: Click here to enter. Submit an entry for every new activity you complete (limit of one entry, per activity)

Prize Pack consists of:

• 1 x Ickypedia or Ickyfoodia book by The Listies (selected at random);
• 1 x The Listies Make You LOL DVD; and
• 1 x The Boy, the Bear, the Baron, the Bard and Other Dramatic Tales book by Gregory Rogers
  
  

Prize Draw: The competition prize draw will be posted on Penrith City Library’s Facebook page at 11am Monday 11 October, 2021. Download the Shakespeare Time Traveller Passport Competition Terms and Conditions here.

Need a library card to get started? Ask a parent to call 02 4732 7891 to sign up for membership over the phone.

SHAKESPEARE BOOK BLOG

Check out the great Shakespeare titles at Penrith City Library. Borrow e-books and e-audiobooks via Libby or borrow a hardcopy title when library branches open with your library card. Read any Shakespeare related title and complete a review at Travel Stop #1.

E-BOOKS AND AUDIOBOOKS via Libby

Title: The Diary of William Shakespeare, Gentleman (e-book)
Editor: Jackie French
Find it here.

Title: Shakespeare’s Hamlet: The Manga Edition (e-book)
Author: Adam Sexton
Find it here
The sudden death of the king, later revealed to be murder. The queen's all-too-sudden remarriage to the king's brother, the murderer. The grieving, suspicious Prince Hamlet. Supernatural visitations. Plots, leaks, and counterplots. Poisoned wine. A rigged sword fight. Revenge. This fast-paced, graphic manga edition gets you caught up in the conflicts and passions that makes Hamlet one of Shakespeare's most beloved tragedies.

Title: Hamlet: Fully dramatised audio edition (audiobook)
Author: William Shakespeare / Full cast dramatization
Find it here.

Title: Tales from Shakespeare (audiobook)
Author: Charles Lamb
Find it here.

FOR PRIMARY STUDENTS

Title: Shakespeare’s Tales
Retold by: Beverley Birch
Illustrator: Stephen Lambert
Find it here.
This book retells four of Shakespeare's most well-known plays: Antony and Cleopatra, Hamlet, Othello, and The Tempest. With beautiful illustrations and poetic yet easily understood language, this book is the perfect way to introduce young people to the work of Shakespeare.

Title: Hamlet for kids
Author: Lois Burdett
Find it here.
A retelling of Shakespeare's "Hamlet," written in rhyming couplets especially for young readers and performers, includes illustrations and comments by children.

Title: 10 best Shakespeare stories ever!
Author: Terry Deary
Illustrator: Michael Tickner
Find it here
In this title, the bard's ten best stories are re-told ...with a modern twist.

Title: How to stop an alien invasion using Shakespeare.
Author: Nick Falk and Tony Flowers
Find it here

Title: Shakespeare Stories and More Shakespeare Stories
Retold by: Andrew Matthews
Illustrator: Tony Ross
Find it here
Andrew Matthews' classic retellings of Shakespeare's best-loved plays, Illustrated by the award-winning Tony Ross. The easy-to-read writing style and fabulous illustrations bring the well-known characters and their stories to life. A fantastic introduction to Shakespeare for the younger reader.

Title: The Orchard Book of Shakespeare Stories
Author/s: Andrew Matthews
Illustrator: Angela Barett
Find it here
Andrew Matthews' lively retellings capture all the drama and excitement of eight of Shakespeare's best-loved plays including Angela Barrett's beautiful illustrations bring the well-known characters and their stories gloriously to life, including 'Romeo and Juliet', 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' and 'Hamlet'.

Title: Mr William Shakespeare’s plays: seven plays
Author: Marcia Williams
Find it here.
Somewhere between 'Classic Comics' and graphic novels lies this collection of Shakespeare's works, drastically abridged and presented in large comic-strip format, combining adapted text below cartoon drawings.

Title: Zombie, or not to be
Author: Kyle Sullivan
Illustrator: Derek Sullivan
Find it here.

Title: Usborne Stories from Shakespeare
Author/s: Anna Claybourne and Elena Temporin
Find it here

SECONDARY

Title: Hamlet: William Shakespeare’s Hamlet staged on the page
Author: Nicki Greenberg
Find it here
In a graphic, teen fiction telling of Hamlet, Nicki Greenberg creates a sumptuous staging of Shakespeare's enigmatic play on the page, a visual feast with drama that intensifies both on stage and off.

Title: The Shakespeare Book
Author: Georgina Palffy
Find it here.
This series for school students looks at the work of William Shakespeare, and is packed with witty illustrations and inspirational quotes. Easy-to-understand graphics and illustrations bring the themes, plots, characters and language of Shakespeare to life.

Title: Bravo, Mr. William Shakespeare!: seven plays
Author: Marcia Williams
Find it here.
Somewhere between 'Classic Comics' and graphic novels lies this collection of Shakespeare's works, drastically abridged and presented in large comic-strip format, combining adapted text below cartoon drawings.

Title: 30-Second Shakespeare: 50 key aspects of his works, life and legacy, each explained in half a minute.
Editor: Ros Barber
Illustrator: Ivan Hissey
Find it here.

Title: Srsly Hamlet
Author: Courtney Carbone
Find it here