We have some of the Wishbone videos, but I didn't know they were available as books. I wonder how the author made such a tragic story fun to read. Paula ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pam Quinn" <quinns@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2005 7:09 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Wishbone classics > Hi, > > The other day my son was getting frustrated because he was reading > Romeo and Juliet for school, and couldn't understand the language. I > looked on bookshare so that I could help him, hopefully that is, and I > found the neatest thing--a kids' version of Romeo and Juliette. Itt's > written in modern English and really fun to read. It's the only book > by this author on bookshare, Billy Aronson, and is one of a series of > classics written for children called the Wishbone series. If anybody > can get the others from their library and scan them, I think they'd > really be great additions to our collection. I was hoping there would > be more of Shakespeare in the series, but from what I've found on the > internet it looks like the rest are a variety of classics. > > Pam > > > >