I'm rather fond of Shakespeare, I love his stories and I love the fact that you can grab this Shakespeare Story Collection for just £9.99 from The Book People.

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To buy, or not to buy shouldn't be your question when it comes to this Shakespeare Story Collection - 16 of William Shakespeare's most famous plays and stories have been rewritten especially for kids.

The illustrations have been drawn by Tony Ross whose style you'll definitely recognise if you have lots of children's books in your house - he's a bit of a modern day Quentin Blake.

If you switch off when you hear the name Shakespeare because you had to read one of his plays during English Lit' at school, now's your chance to find out what the plays were REALLY about - lots of people over at HUKD have ordered this Shakespeare Story Collection for their kids and admit, quietly, to looking forward to all the Shakespeare plays and stories being made clear.

I think this is an awesome book deal and the free delivery code DEC11FREE still appears to be working, if it doesn't by the time you order your Shakespeare Story Collection then a single item delivery charge of £1.95 will apply.

Thanks to Guswold at HUKD

The Book People have a 16 book Shakespeare Story Collection up for grabs for just £9.99 - this is a great way to introduce kids to his stories and bring Shakespeare to life, rather than wait until they do it in English at school and kill off any enthusiasm for his work.

• Click HERE to grab these Shakespeare stories from The Book People

I think most people like the idea of being able to say they've read Shakespeare, but BOY can it be heavy going sometimes!

Doing Shakespeare at school doesn't make it any easier either and if anything tends to put kids off more, so HURRAH for books like these.

The tales that make up this Shakespeare story collection have been rewritten to make them easy to understand, fun and accessible to young children.

This, in my mind, is a good thing as Shakespeare's stories are great and the illustrations that accompany the tales add an extra dimension to the fun factor too.

The title which make up the collection are:

• Julius Caesar
• King Lear
• The Merchant of Venice
• The Taming of the Shrew
• Twelfth Night
• As you Like it
• A Midsummer Night's Dream
• Much Ado About Nothing
• The Tempest
• Henry V
• Macbeth
• Othello
• Richard III
• Romeo and Juliet
• Antony and Cleopatra
• Hamlet

Single item delivery charges apply if you only order this and costs £1.95.

Happy 'to be or not to be' and all that!