Having the opportunity to participate in Point Park University's Poetry Connection, I had the opportunity to speak with some fourth graders from the Environmental Charter School in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. A young man named Diezl told me that at the age they were, they were already studying Shakespeare! It is important to incorporate a form of higher-level literacy into a child's life, whether through literature or film. Directed by Kelly Asbury, the movie Gnomeo and Juliet was released in 2011. In this box office hit, the rival enemies are the blue and red garden gnomes. The blue garden gnome is a representation of the Montagues who live in 2B. Next door resides the red garden gnome representative of the Capulets, in the well no 2B. To my delight, after seeing this film I was extremely happy that, between the drama and the film, the director did not stray so far from the themes represented in Shakespeare's work to the point of making it both unrecognizable and