Sep 7, 2025
"Macbeth" for babies? "War and Peace" for toddlers? Utah author Jennifer Adams creates board books that introduce icons of classical literat
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"Macbeth" for babies? "War and Peace" for toddlers? Utah author Jennifer Adams creates board books that introduce icons of classical literat
"Little Master Conan Doyle: Sherlock Holmes in The Hound of the Baskervilles (A Sound Primer)" by Jennifer Adams with illustrations by Alison Oliver (BabyLit series published by Gibbs Smith, 2013)
Book Haul: Presents for Baby
One of my good friends from college had a baby girl in January, so I’ve been going crazy in the children’s section of every bookstore I’ve gone to! She was also an English major and we have very similar tastes, so I know she’ll love all of these. And I made sure there was some math representation with the Ada Lovelace book since her husband majored in math. Ada Lovelace and Jane are from the bookshop at the National Portrait Gallery. The William Morris books are from the Victoria & Albert Museum. She Made a Monster and Jane Eyre: A Counting Primer are from a bookshop near me. I can’t wait to meet the baby and give her all these!
More on-brand baby gifts. 🙂
As a somewhat lunatic Austenite, I about died of joy when the first given name Smol J ever said was “EMMA”.
The whole BabyLit Primer series is fantastic, and the angry amazon reviews by people who don’t understand what a primer is, those are beyond hilarious. There are people giving one star because BabyLit Moby Dick isn’t a toddlerized version of the novel. Moby Dick, y'all.
A million thanks to Best Friend E, who is a children’s librarian, for gifting this book. She is a treasure.
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I bought so many BabyLit books for my nieces and nephews and friends' toddlers. They're a must for book nerds. Glad the tags were helpful!
Not really an ask, just wanted to say, if this is your SIL's first baby, do tell her that if she reads through a picture book and doesn't like it, for any reason (text, style, illustrations), DO NOT KEEP IT. There's a law of nature that a kid will be obsessed with the ones you dislike and there's nothing worse than feeling like you have to keep reading this book you think is garbage to your kid.
This was my mom's hard rule and I respect it so much. Even when we could read by ourselves this was her rule for our whole childhoods. We could check out whatever we wanted from the library, read whatever we wanted in bookstores, but by god no Berenstain Bears book was ever gaining permanent shelf-space in our house. I have twelve nieces and nephews and she was so right on this.
That’s very good advice ngl, I’ll be sure to pass it on! It’s so funny that your mom didn’t like the Berenstain Bears, we had a few books but we watched *so* much of the tv show lol.
(This is the first baby in my immediate family and despite the fact that I’m not directly involved in any way I’ve been mildly panicking whenever I think about it. Anxiety, y’all! But I know it will be fine.)
"Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same, And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day!" From "Two Roads" by Kate Coombs and Carme Lemniscates, a "Little Poet Robert Frost" BabyLit book. ~ #tworoads #robertfrost #katecoombs #carmelemniscates #babylit #littlepoetrobertfrost #theroadnottaken #2020 #picturebook #kidlit #childrensfiction #picturebookillustration #picturebooks #picturebookstagram #childrensbook #kidlitart #picturebooksofinstagram https://www.instagram.com/p/CVxux6SF0ko/?utm_medium=tumblr