All the World's a Stage by Rebecca Piatt Davidson and Anita Lobel, ill. New York: Greenwillow Books, 2003. 

ISBN: 0060296267

Media: watercolor paints and white goache

All the World's a Stage identifies nine of William Shakespeare's plays starting with The Comedy of Errors and including Twelfth Night, the Taming of the Shrew, and the Winter's Tale.  The author provides one famous quote from each play and the illustrator reinforces the meaning of the quote with illustrations of that depict the play. 

Literary Devices: repetition, rhyme, and rhythm

Rating: 5Q/5P

Wess Garcia, July 2009