If this is the only way to get kids to read the classics, our future generations are doomed. I have to give the authors some credit for taking a dense and sometimes boring story and making it entertaining. There are times while reading this that I shake my head in despair, and others when i think, okay I find find a use for this. The series must be popular because there is over 6 books, and not just on Shakespeare. Each book take about an hour to read, and I could see where they would increase interest in the original story, or make the original story easier to understand.