Macbeth United: A Football Tragedy

Macbeth United: A Football Tragedy

by Michael Rosen and Tony Ross
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 03/09/2020

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Michael Rosen has reimagined this classic play by William Shakespeare as the story of Macbeth, a promising 12-year-old striker on the Shotfield football team, and his burning desire to become team captain. His hard-hearted mother pushes him to do whatever it takes to get ahead and get noticed by academy scouts - dirty tricks included. So when it comes to the big game, fair is foul and fouls are fair...

ISBN:
9780702302015
9780702302015
Category:
Sporting stories (Children's / Teenage)
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
03-09-2020
Language:
English
Publisher:
Scholastic
Michael Rosen

Michael Rosen is one of the most popular authors for children. His bestselling titles published by Walker Books include We're Going on a Bear Hunt, A Great Big Cuddle, Little Rabbit Foo Foo, Michael Rosen’s Sad Book, Tiny Little Fly and What Is Poetry?.

Michael received the Eleanor Farjeon Award for distinguished services to children’s literature in 1997, and was the Children’s Laureate from 2007 to 2009. He is a distinguished critic and academic, Professor of Children's Literature at Goldsmiths, University of London.

He also presents radio programmes for the BBC, and is a political commentator. Michael lives in London.

Tony Ross

Tony Ross was born in London and studied at the Liverpool School of Art and Design. He has worked as a cartoonist, a graphic designer, as the Art Director of an advertising agency, and as Senior Lecturer in Art at Manchester Polytechnic.

Tony is one of the most popular and successful children's illustrators of all time, best known for illustrating Horrid Henry and the works of David Walliams. Tony's books have been translated into 40 languages in over 100 countries. He lives in Macclesfield.

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