I love seeing how the authors have reimagined each classic book. My child learns important words and is exposed to classic literature at a very basic level…and I get to enjoy reading the story. I think finding baby books of any sort that work on both levels is important.
When the books are working at their best, they are functioning on two levels - for the child and also for the adult.” A retelling of Anna Karenina for a 3-year-old would be ridiculous! The series features primers that teach age-appropriate concepts for babies, but use the characters, settings, and storylines of classic novels to do so. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes: Hounds of the Baskervilles teaches different sounds of doors creaking, lightning crashing, and more.Īdams explained the idea to PW: “t’s important to note that these books are not retellings. It’s a book to teach children about parts of the body using Frankenstein’s Monster. Instead of the book trying to summarize the plot of Frankenstein in a few pages, it has a tongue in cheek component. But what really sold me on the franchise was Frankenstein, the simple text by Jennifer Adams, and Art by Alison Oliver. So when I started finding BabyLit Classic books, I was naturally intrigued.
Part of it was tongue in cheek part of it was the belief that if you introduced concepts like complex mathematics at an early age, there would be less fear about the topic later in life. I used to give a baby book about calculus to my friends when they started having babies. I’ve always been fond of baby books that tackle adult topics. In addition to the classic literature, they also have biographical books about naturalists and poets, books about places, distribute Spanish-language books from Lil Libros and more.Īriana Stein and Patty Rodriguez founded Lil Libros because they wanted to “introduce bilingualism and Latin American culture through picture board books.” I think a good fourth of that is in my home right now. They started with a few classics - Alice in Wonderland, Jane Eyre, Pride and Prejudice, and Romeo and Juliet - and Publishers Weekly reported that in their 10th anniversary year in 2021, they have 95 titles and have sold over 2 million copies in North America.
“And the idea of redefining the notion of classics to share them with babies occurred to me - it was really a lightning-strike moment!” Taylor said to Publishers Weekly: “More than a decade ago, I noticed that there was a resurgence of interest in classic literature - and an interest in finding new ways to explore it and respond to it,” she recalled. The idea came from Suzanne Taylor, now Chief Creative Officer, and came to life thanks to staffers Jennifer Adams and Alison Oliver. Utah publisher Gibbs Smith began publishing these books in 2011/2012 based on classic literature.
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