Romeo and Juliet Retold For Kids (Beginner Reader Classics)

By BookCaps

Romeo and Juliet is one of the greatest plays ever wrote...but it’s also difficult for some younger readers. This book takes the classic play and retells it for modern readers! This is a novelization of the play that is just for kids.

While the integrity of the play is intact, some of the more mature themes have been removed to make the appropriate for younger audiences.

KidLit-O’s newest series helps introduce younger readers to classic works of literature by retelling them as beginning reader chapter books.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookCaps
• Release date: Jul 8, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301625284

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William Shakespeare’s

Romeo and Juliet

Retold For Kids

(Beginner Reader Classics)

Rosie Stine

By BookCaps Study Guides/Kid-Lit-O

© 2011 by Golgotha Press, Inc.

Published at SmashWords

About

KidLit-o was started for one simple reason: our kids. They wanted to find a way to introduce classic literature to their children.

Books in this series take all the classics that they love and make them age appropriate for a younger audience—while still keeping the integrity and style of the original.

We hope you and you children enjoy them. We love feedback, so if you have a question or comment, stop by our website!

Chapter I

There is a story that has been told many times over. It may just be the most popular story of all time. So pay attention closely, so you will know too. You see this is a story about love and hatred, happiness and love, revenge and forgiveness. This is a story like no other story.

This story took place in the country of Italy, in the city of Verona. In Verona there were two wealthy families. One family was named Montague, while the other was named Capulet. Now there was a problem. These two families hated each other with a passion, but neither of them remembered why. They had been fighting for so long they had actually forgotten how the rivalry began. This hatred was so strong they even taught their children to hate each other, and their children never bothered asking why. Now the thing to remember is that this hatred was the strongest hatred possible. As you read this story you will see this to be true in many ways. Many problems arise from this kind of rivalry.

One such example was one day when two of the servants from the Capulet house, Samson and Gregory, were walking down a street. They were talking amongst themselves when they saw two servants from the Montague house, Abraham and Balthasar. Now as I said before these two households hated each other with a passion. This hatred ran so deep even the servants hated each other. The Capulet servants decided to start a fight the Montague servants.

Now the Capulet servants were smart. They knew if they fought in the street that they would have to answer to the Prince of Verona. So to stay out of trouble the Capulet servants gave the Montague servants dirty looks as they walked past with a bad gesture of thumbing their nose. Long ago this was a very bad gesture to give someone.

Abraham, a Montague servant, became outraged with these dirty looks and gesture and he drew his sword. The Capulet servants smiled a wide smirk and drew their own swords. They were happy, since a Montague servant drew his sword first. That means if they are caught by the Prince, the Capulet servants could claim self defense. The four servants began to fight a mighty fight.

Just then a boy named Benvolio, a nephew of the Montague family, saw the fight and he tried to break it up. Part you fools! Put down your swords, you do not know what you are doing! commanded Benvolio.

As Benvolio was trying to break up the fight another boy named Tybalt, a nephew of the Capulets, saw the fight as well. Now you see Tybalt loved a good fight and instantly drew his sword. To him it didn’t matter why they were