Just Macbeth!
Author: Andy Griffiths
Illustrator: Terry Denton
Book 8 in the Just series
Pages: 216
Published: 2009
Age: 7+
Just Macbeth! is the seventh book in the Just! series. In 2005 the Bell Shakespeare Company commissioned Andy to write a play that would help introduce young audiences to the works of William Shakespeare and the pleasures of live theatre. Along with co-writer, Jill Griffiths, he came up with Just Macbeth!, which blends the characters from the Just! series with the story and characters from Macbeth. The book Just Macbeth! is a slightly revised version of the play.
Is this the right book for you? Take the MACBETH TEST and find out.
1. Do you love stories about witches, ghosts, time travel, angry garden gnomes and ruthless tyrants?
2. Do you ever wish that you could be the boss of everyone and everything?
3. Do you think people who are really bad at karaoke deserve to die?
4. Do you like the idea of being able to impress people with your knowledge of one of Shakespeare's most famous plays?
5. Do you giggle when you hear - or read - the word 'bosom'?
SCORE: One point for each 'yes' answer. 3-5 You are a ruthless tyrant. You are also very immature. You will love this book. 1-2 You are either a ruthless tyrant or simply very immature. You will love this book. 0 You are an immature ruthless tyrant and you don't even know it! You will love this book.
About the Just Series
Books in series order
- 1.Just Tricking!(1997)
- 2.Just Annoying!(1998)
- 3.Just Stupid!(1999)
- 4.Just Crazy!(2000)
- 5.Just Disgusting!(2002)
- 6.Just Wacky!(2004)
- 7.Just Shocking!(2007)
- 8.Just Macbeth!(2009)
- 9.Just Doomed!(2012)
Reading age: 7+ years
A wildly popular series of funny, fast-paced short stories told by young Andy, who considers himself the world's greatest, craziest, most annoying, and most stupid practical joker. The series contains many different styles of story, including stories told in the form of lists, choose-your-own adventures, comic strips, playscripts and letters. And all are accompanied by talking page numbers, cartoons and flick pictures in the margins by Terry Denton.

