After working several years in different elementary and high schools (especially in Spain), I felt the necessity of writing a curriculum unit to approach Shakespeare for elementary students. It is important that young children make contact with one of the best playwrights in the world. One way of doing this is with something children love -cartoons. Why not teach Shakespeare from The Lion King? With this unit, if young students like The Lion King, they will like Shakespeare. The teaching activities are related to the main aspects of narrative writing by obtaining as much as we teachers can from them: summarizing, critical thinking, working and learning in cooperative groups. Did Shakespeare write the plot for The Lion King more than 400 years ago? I would say that he did it in a way as we can find lots of similarities not just with his Hamlet but some other of his works such as A Midsummer Night's Dream, Macbeth, Henry IV and his sonnets. This unit has been designed with a wonderful and accessible annotated bibliography with children books about Shakespeare. I have designed this as a very practical unit.