Just Macbeth

Just series

by Andy Griffiths

Take one Shakespearean tragedy: Macbeth. Add Andy, Danny and Lisa - the Just trio, whose madcap exploits have already delighted hundreds of thousands of readers for the last ten years. Mix them all together to create one of the most hilarious, most dramatic, moving stories of love, Whizz Fizz, witches, murder and madness, from the bestselling and funniest children's author in Australia.

Genres: Fiction, Childrens, Young Adult, Plays, School, Humor

198 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 2009

About the author

Andy Griffiths is Australia’s most popular children’s writer. He is the author of over 20 books, including nonsense verse, short stories, comic novels and plays. Over the past 15 years Andy’s books have been New York Times bestsellers, won over 50 children’s choice awards, been adapted as a television cartoon series and sold over 5 million copies worldwide.

Andy is best known as the author of the much-loved Just! series and The Day My Bum Went Psycho. In 2008 Andy became the first Australian author to win six children’s choice awards in one year for Just Shocking!, smashing his previous record of 4 awards for The Bad Book in 2005.

In 2008 Andy and his wife Jill collaborated with The Bell Shakespeare Company on the popular and critically acclaimed theatrical production Just Macbeth! which was nominated for two Helpmann Awards. In July 2010 Just Macbeth!completed a return sold-out season at the Sydney Opera House before heading to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival where it received rave reviews. The book of the play was shortlisted in the children’s section of the 2010 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards.

Andy has had a long-standing collaboration with the multi-talented illustrator Terry Denton. Together they have produced theJust! series, the wildly popular The Bad Book and The Very Bad Book, the ridiculous illustrated guide What Bumosaur is That?, and the Seussian-inspired early readers The Cat on the Mat is Flat and The Big Fat Cow that Goes Kapow! Their latest book is The 13-Storey Treehouse (September 2011).

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Reviews

[Lou · Rating 4 out of 5]

My dream come true! Andy Griffiths meets Willy Shakespeare! Yay! Two of my favs.. I ADORE this book. EVERYONE should read it..!!!

[David · Rating 4 out of 5]

Shakespeare with toilet humour: gold!

[Oliver Eastwood · Rating 5 out of 5]

When Shakespeare and juvenile humour meet. Hilariously immature.

[Neffa 🍑✨ · Rating 3 out of 5]

I’m performing this play for my Drama Club, and after reading over the script I really enjoyed it. Its a very light hearted, immature, and obviously funny, version of Macbeth, and was a very quick read. I also really liked the little comics and doodles on the margins which added more interest to it. Overall, wasn’t the BEST thing I’ve ever read, but I’m excited to perform it (I’m playing the character of Lisa), and think it will be very fun and hilarious.

[Megan · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read this and listened to the audio book, both ways it was great! I love how its written like a play script, fantastic for kids to learn the rough outline of Shakespeare's play Macbeth. This book makes it fun and for all ages. I highly recommend it! ^w^

[Locky · Rating 3 out of 5]

Great book

[Lauren · Rating 4 out of 5]

It was a really funny book

[ariela rose · Rating 2 out of 5]

the best thing about this book is the fact that i knew the story of macbeth at 10 years old and the poo jokes

[Carla · Rating 1 out of 5]

After a year of battling with this book we're finally calling it quits. Shakespeare is hard enough to get through when you're an adult, but trying to read it to a 7 year old was a challenge. Most of the time we had no idea what was happening and my son didn't understand the language

[Sally · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read this aloud with my children. They thought it was hysterically funny. They don't yet realise how much of Shakespeare's Macbeth they now know. Really it is quite well done and if you don't mind a lot of silliness then you might enjoy it too.

[Alex · Rating 3 out of 5]

More of a boys book, a bit weird.....

[MsCrowshaw]

4 stars

[Sophie · Rating 2 out of 5]

borrowed this for nostalgia reasons, really, and because I'm studying Macbeth. but it turned out it wasn't really that funny so I sort of skim-read it. think I'm a bit old now.

[Matty · Rating 5 out of 5]

it was hell epic in my view

[Anna Stewart]

Not to good

[Deanne Harvey · Rating 4 out of 5]

After reading Banquo's Son and Bloodlines I was in the mood for a bit more Macbeth so gave this a second read after a couple of years since first reading. Very enjoyable and made me chuckle. Great first introduction to Macbeth especially to primary school age boys.

[Aaryavijayababu]

its great

[Eman Kelaby · Rating 2 out of 5]

Just Macbeth is a book I read with my class during year 7, it was basically a test book that that we had exams for too. It was written down as a script that I actually didn't like.

[Catherine · Rating 5 out of 5]

Had to read it twice. First time the book. Second time all the images in the columns

[Eve Jessica Langley · Rating 2 out of 5]

It was fine. Just not as good as the rest of their books. Also I thought it would be a bunch of short stories, it isn't. It is just one long story of a Macbeth retelling

[Angela Priebbenow · Rating 1 out of 5]

I really didn’t like it. The humour is really crude and silly. And the pictures telling a bunch of different stories were distracting and made it feel like I couldn’t concentrate.

[Mahala · Rating 3 out of 5]

I'm reading the actual Macbeth at the moment, which made me think of this. I don't know why I only rated this 3 stars in 2013, because I definitely read this at least 3 times and remember thoroughly enjoying it. I'm guessing that was when I was 11-12ish, based on the 2009 publication date, and by the time I joined goodreads and rated it I was "too old" for Andy Griffiths' style of books and looked back on it more poorly than I do now. I haven't read it back as an adult, but reviewing this as pseudo-child-me and not teenage-me I bump the review up to a hearty 4 stars :)

[Lisa · Rating 3 out of 5]

Funny story!
I like how someone can change so much by wealth and fame.

[Greg · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really like how it teaches you William shakespeares acts and plays

[Jordan]

Really funny 😂