A Midsummer Night´s Dream Series: World Literature for Children Title: A Midsummer Night‘s Dream Original Author: William Shakespeare Retold by: Barbara Kindermann Artist: Almud Kunert Extent: 36 pp, 4/c throughout Format: 220 x 300 mm Pub. price: EUR 15,50 Pub. date: Autumn 2005 German ISBN: 978-3-934029-14-9 Ages: 7 and up

Material available: German review copy.

THE STORY:

Barbara Kindermann enchants young readers with her wonderful narration of one of Shakespeare´s classics: It is in a midsummer´s night, when four love-sick people wander through a forest near Athens. This wood is full with fairies, as it belongs to the powerful king of fairies, Oberon, who lives there with his silvershining queen, Titania. Oberon´s favourite fairy is named Puck - the spirit of mischief, who causes confusion wherever he goes by swaying his magic flower. During this enchanted midsummer´s night many misunderstandings, bewitched situations and emotional chaos need to be conquered - Will love be found in the end?

THE ORIGINAL AUTHOR:

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) is worldwide known as England`s greatest ever playwright. In 1587 he moved to London where, after a short acting career, he became co-owner of the famous theatre „The Globe“, where still today his plays are being performed successfully. His Midsummer Night´s Dream carries the reader off to a mysterious world, in which phantasy and reality fuse in a miraculous state.

THE ARTIST:

Almud Kunert, born in 1964, studied painting and graphic design at the Academy of Graphic Arts in Munich. She is working as an independent illustrator for different publishers and in advertising