#cozy classics

[nadjasolace]

loosing my mind rn

POOR

[saranilssonbooks]

A bit of Cozy Classics' Ishmael to cozy up your day, shipmates. 🤍

[daphnefangirling]

Jack & Holman Wang aka 'Cozy Classics' did Pride and Prejudice in 12 words for babies/toddlers with felt dolls illustrations

Tagging @mulderscully because we’ve been talking about it 😉

[misskittygrimm]

Because why the fuck not? #tea #janeeyre #charlottebronte #cozyclassics #cute

[saranilssonbooks]

Developmental psychology scholar read Cozy Classics' Moby-Dick! Here are the thougts.

For those who haven't heard of the Cozy Classics, they are a series of board book adaptions of great classics such as Oliver Twist, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, and Jane Eyre, created by Jack and Holman Wang and intended for young children. What makes these books stand out, however, is that they come with a most delightful needle felted twist!

Each book contains 12 illustrations, consisting of photographs depicting scenes from the original story and featuring needle felted characters and props.

In addition to this, 12 words related to the story are printed in-between the illustrations; "sailor", "leg", "boat", "find"...

...et cetera. Guess Moby-Dick gets a bonus word though, since "Pequod" is ever so neatly embroidered on the ship's fluffy name plate.

I have to say that this whole concept is nothing short of genius. Not only are the little ones presented with the classics fitting their own level of perception, but the materials shown in the pictures are all familiar ones to them sensory-wise, thus much more relatable than conventional illustrations.

As for the words, they are fitting 1-2 syllable ones, but their meaning - at least in this case - are somewhat unsual. I'm telling you, one doesn't find educational toddler literature containing "smash", "sink", and "mad" together all that often. The choice of words in combination with the pictures also works in an almost insidious fashion in that they will now be forever planted in the lil' one's brain and for the rest of their life they will recognize that peg legged dude with anger issues.

The book manages to capture the essence of the original quite well and what truly surprised me was how the creators did not hold back on the dark stuff. Ahab looks like something that definately will come crawling out from under your bed at night for a maniacal stabbing session, Moby Dick turns the Pequod to splinters, and a heart broken Ishmael floats around on a coffin. Even the color scheme is moody and ominous. We approve! 👍

Even if you don't have a child nearby to brain wash, I highly recommend you check this book out - it's up for a free read on archive.org - for the sake of admiring the pieces of downright wool art.

So, there's the Cozy Classics Moby-Dick for ya. Now I have to go ponder whether I should add a request for a needle felted coffin in my death plan.

[antifa-hulk]

There's a page in "Cozy Classic's War and Peace" where Andrei is just fuckin. Rekt layin on the ground. Its probably supposed to look like his whole sky monologue but. Look at this fool.

[mcad-library]

NEW ARRIVALS AT THE MCAD LIBRARY: WARM FUZZY FEELINGS

COZY CLASSICS by Jack & Holman Wang

The Cozy Classics series manages to condense hundreds of pages of a classic into just twelve words. That’s an impressive feat in and of itself, but Jack & Holman Wang take it a step further, making the series adorable with their needle felted illustrations (and ‘adorable’ is not a word I usually apply to a required English Lit reading). We’ve acquired the Cozy Classics versions of Pride and Prejudice and Great Expectations, so swing by the library for some genuinely cute and cozy classics.

Also, the author and illustrator are brothers who have been collaborating on their books since the third grade. How cool is that?! If you have the time, I’d recommend taking a look at this wonderful Google Doodle they worked on for February 2015, which shows some steps of their process:

https://www.google.com/doodles/laura-ingalls-wilders-148th-birthday

http://www.mycozyclassics.com/

- Hannah Jerrie, ‘19, Illustration