Five-year-old Will Shakespeare hurries home through a December dusk in Stratford after Gammer Gurton’s tales of magpies and tailless cats. The story follows his boyhood in Warwickshire: his mother’s stories, fairy rings on the grass, school, travelling players and the country sights and speech that would one day fill his plays.
An imaginative portrait of Shakespeare as a child, short enough to read aloud in a few sittings. Download the free EPUB.