Cassidy Kao

Cassidy is 14 years old. She recently published her fourth book, "Retelling Shakespeare's Tragedies: Along with a Collection of Sonnets, Quatrains and Riddles". She wrote this book because she wanted to help everyone understand Shakespeare. She started to get interested in Shakespeare’s plays when she was seven. Although the language could be hard to understand in the beginning because of the time period the plays were written, the stories are timeless. She remembered watching some of the plays by BBC and thought that it was fun to figure out what the actors were talking about. Her goal of writing this book is to lay out the story line for people who are not familiar with Shakespeare’s plays so when they go see the plays, they will understand everything that’s happening in the play. They might even be able to deduce what different old words mean by learning the plot. That’s actually how she learned the language, and how she really started to enjoy Shakespeare’s writing. Cassidy hopes that this book will inspire you to go see Shakespeare’s plays put together by different companies close to you. Ultimately, she wants to help you enjoy Shakespeare’s writing as well!

She was inspired to write her first book, "Roller Coaster, A Kids Guide on How to Write Poetry", when her mom told Cassidy that April was National Poetry Month (NPM). Cassidy wrote a poem a day and at the end of April started to plan with her mom to write the book you are reading right now. Cassidy's "Flower Sonnet" also won the 2014 Children's Poetry Contest at Preschool Powol Packets. Cassidy wishes to inspire other kids and other people like you to write poems and Cassidy hopes you enjoy this book.

Her second book is "Constellation Exploration - Greek Mythical Stories Retold with Simple Facts and Fun and Mysterious Riddles". She was nine years old when she wrote this book. She was inspired to write this book because she just absolutely LOVES Greek mythology and she was fascinated by all the beautiful stories associated with the constellations. She had so much fun retelling the mythical stories, learning more about the scientific facts of the constellations and creating the mysterious riddles. She hopes you enjoy reading them too.

Her third book was her short fiction book, "The Artist's Fortune." She combined two of her passions, art and adventure, and came up with a fast paced story about four friends going on an unexpected adventure during World War II.