#a babylit books

[holmesoldfellow]

"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)

[ofliterarynature]

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.)

[thatwritererinoriordan]

[byfightingwiththewind]

also while road-tripping, i found these in a little gift shop! (image description in alt. text) i had never heard of this before, but apparently there’s a series of books called “babylit board books” which take classic lit and turn them into board books. “little miss burnett” made me chuckle. and i’m sorry i didn’t get a better picture, especially of the a little princess one! i didn’t look inside that one due to me finding these at the last minute (😭), but in the the secret garden one, it had illustrations of different flowers mentioned in burnett’s original accompanied by authentic quotes, complete with her depiction of yorkshire accents. i didn’t buy them as unfortunately i don’t have any babes in my life who i could gift these to, but they’re so sweet nonetheless!

[plutodetective]

I’m speechless.

I went to check if there had been any more goth classics for babies, and Amazon (don’t judge me, I’m in Brazil, it’s the only site where I can get these books) recommended me “Nevermore!” for toddlers.

“ Exploring love, loss, and grief, Kate Coombs’ tender story, Poe’s own lyrical words, and Carme Lemniscates’ charming, cheeky, and adorable art will teach your child to Be Creative and Be Brilliant”

Look... I suppose it may be a good book to read to a toddler who unfortunately lost someone at such a young age. I lost a grandmother when I was 2, and I could definitely see my family buying me Edgar Allan Poe to help explain to me what had happened, if it had been an option at the time.

But saying “exploring loss and grief will make your child Creative” in the summary of a book for toddlers is... A choice.

[kinderlist]

Както докато е бременна жената, има значение каква музика слуша, в каква среда е, какво яде, как се чувства, така и след раждането всичко има значение за бебето и изграждането на неговите навици, характер и виждания за света. На българския пазар вече има голямо разнообразие от всякакви продукти за бебетата и децата, не е като в моето детство, когато хубавите кукли и коли с дистанционно управление ги имаха само децата, чиито бащи пътуваха в чужбина. За голямо съжаление обаче, при книгите все още се усеща голяма липса, особено при тези, които са предназначени за бебетата. Когато избирам книги за Кай, гледам всичко в тях. ИЛЮСТРАЦИИТЕ са първото нещо, което ми прави впечатление и ме предразполага да разлистя книгата, както и ШРИФТЪТ на заглавието и вписването му в заглавната страница. Той трябва да е четлив, красив и да е в хармония с илюстрациите. Независимо, че Кай не чете, гледам и ТЕКСТА в книгата, ако има такъв, за да ми е приятно после на мен да го чета. Не забравям да обърна внимание и на използваните МАТЕРИАЛИ и ИЗРАБОТКАТА на книгата, защото освен за външния вид на продукта, те имат значение и за безопасността на бебето. КНИГА: “Little Master Carroll: Alice in Wonderland”, издадена от „GIBBS SMITH“ е част от поредицата „A BabyLit Books“, която въвежда децата в света на класическата литература с лекота. Всяка книга е оформена с илюстрации, които следват историята на избраното произведение и думи, които обръщат вниманието на децата към изучаване на изображенията, развиват наблюдателността на им и ги фокусират върху различните особености на картинките. Макар, че няма текст, който да разказва историята на Алиса, извадените образи от сюжета са толкова добре подбрани, че родителят може да се води по тях и да разказва. ЧОРАПИ: „Happy Socks” от колекцията им, която е посветена на Бийтълс и анимационния филм, който е вдъхновен от тяхната музика „Жълтата подводница”. КАРТОНЕНИ КЪЩИЧКИ: Предназначени са за лакомства, но аз ще използвам за опаковка на чорапите. Трябва само да купя тишу хартия, в която ще ги увия, преди да ги мушна вътре. В комплекта на къщичките има включени етикети и панделки, които придават съвсем завършен вид на опаковката.

[aliteraryprincess]

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! 

[the-forest-library]

More on-brand baby gifts. 🙂

[witchyfashion]

B Is for Boo: A Halloween Alphabet (BabyLit)

Introduce your brilliant baby to the ABCs with this illustrated primer about Halloween.

Greg Paprocki’s popular retro-style series of sturdy board book alphabet primers expands to introduce brilliant babies and toddlers to one of the most popular holidays on the calendar: Halloween. Just as other books in this series make learning history fun and engaging for children, tthis volume will fuel the anticipation of your child’s first halloween and help to expand their vocabulary in the process.

B Is for Boo: A Halloween Alphabet features a collection of twenty-six illustrations featuring Halloween-themed concepts, including imaginative costumes, oodles of treats, pumpkins galore, masks and monsters, and haunted houses.

Greg Paprocki works full-time as an illustrator and book designer. He has illustrated several Curious George books, as well as The Big Book of Superheroes for Gibbs Smith. He began his career as an advertising art director after studying fine art and graphic design at the University of Nebraska.

https://amzn.to/2QDPVcP

[forthegothicheroine]

Can you please give us a tour of the Dracula shelf?

Sure!  (It’s not really a whole shelf, just a section.)

From left to right in the Alucard picture:

Whitstable, a novel about Peter Cushing being approached by a boy who recognizes him as Van Helsing for help against a mundane but no less real monster.  (Sort of a more somber Fright Night…)

Dracula: A BabyLit Counting Primer!  It tells the story of Dracula through numbers and simple pictures.  Too cute for me to resist.

Dracula, the Barnes and Nobel Edition.  The first copy I ever owned, with a great introduction that actually gets Mina’s role in the story.

Dracula, with illustrations by Becky Cloonan!  Man, those illustrations are great.

Dracula, a beautiful leather-bound edition the Byronic Hero got me for our first anniversary!

Powers of Darkness: The Lost Version of Dracula, a weird bootleg Icelandic Dracula.  (Long story but look it up, it’s worth it.)

Dracula: Sense and Nonsense, a book debunking the various urban legends that have clustered around the creation of the novel.

All Action Classics: Dracula, a really good graphic novel with illustrations that are alternately adorable and terrifying.

Dracula Unredacted, an rpg supplement that purports to be the full, unedited version of Dracula with all the espionage bits Stoker surpressed.

Not pictured: Leslie Klinger’s Dracula, Dracula vs. Hitler and Hollywood Gothic, all three of which I got rid of in the last move, Dracula in Istanbul, which I’m still trying to get ahold of, and Anno Dracula, which I’ve got to get off my ass and read one of these days.

[mainstbooksmonroewa]

Books to read if you love Moby-Dick; or, The Whale.

Trying Leviathan: The Nineteenth-Century New York Court Case That Put the Whale on Trial and Challenged the Order of Nature by D. Graham Burnett

In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick

Railsea by China Mieville

Moby Dick: A Babylit Ocean Primer by Alison Oliver (Illustrator) and Jennifer Adams (Author)

Nova by Samuel Delany

#moby-Dick; Or, the Whale: A Literary Classic Told in Tweets for the 21st Century Audience by Mike Bezemek

The North Water by Ian McGuire

[ofliterarynature]

#20 million people will be giving Dr Seuss (and the best Seuss won't be appreciated for years by the yet to be born)#give Virginia Lee Burton - The Little House or Katy and the Big Snow#Give Pelle's New Suit by Elsa Beskow#give Mary Wore Her Red Dress by Merle Peek#if you actually want something an under-one year old will love give the Global Babies board book (and seriously board books are vital)#check out the BabyLit board books - they're great#if you must give Seuss give a less common one like The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins#but seriously books that can be appreciated EARLIER and that won't get destroyed are important#you can find board book editions are more involved picture books as well (like Pelle's New Suit and the Burton books)#but honestly Global Babies - babies love looking at babies

@mabith I hope you don't mind that I've copied your tags but I need you to know that I am now OBSESSED with the BabyLit books, they are the cutest and I don't know if I can resist buying too many of them!!!!

My SIL has asked for books instead of cards for her baby shower, does anyone have some recommendations? I’m completely out of my depth lol.

[aaronbeckerillustration]

Posted @withrepost • @sayurireviews You are Light By Aaron Becker @storybreathing Published by Candlewick press @candlewickpress This is not just a book but an interactive work of art. It is an ode to light- for all its glory and importance. Right from the cover, one can see the interesting die cuts with translucent colour inserts, and naturally you'll hold the book against a source of light. That's a winner right there. As we flip pages, the different layers of colour interact and mix to give different shades in each spread, apt for the description. The stylized images, that of wheat, sea, all together create a beautiful poetic experience, culminating in this line- "the light is you. And you are light. " I didn't explain anything about this book to Sayu, nor did she ask. But from the time I handed it over to her, she has been exploring it all by herself. So far, it's the visual appeal that's keeping her hooked to it. I'd love to see her grow with this book. Oh, and, Happy Diwali. Thank you for this one! :) @riddhikhadke #sayurireviews #sayurirecommends #bookillustration #bookworm #bookstagram #thousandbooksbeforekindergarten #babylit #bookreview #babybookreview #childrensbooks #childrensbookillustration #youarelight #aaronbecker #candlewickpress #candlewickbooks #happydiwali #diwali #light

[fangirl76]

Some unique gift ideas

[gdesignsme]

R Is for Ramadan (BabyLit)

R Is for Ramadan (BabyLit)

Price: (as of – Details) Publisher ‏ : ‎ Gibbs Smith (March 5, 2019) Language ‏ : ‎ English Board book ‏ : ‎ 32 pages ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1423651650 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1423651659 Reading age ‏ : ‎ 5 years and up Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 15.2 ounces Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.5 x 0.75 x 8.5 inches

[mysillylittlegang]

BabyLit® Little Naturalists Series

Today I want to introduce the two newest books in the BabyLit® Little Naturalists series. These adorable, 22-page books introduce your brilliant baby to people who have done great things to preserve our planet. #MySillyLittleGang

Have you ever wondered what Rachel Carson & Teddy Roosevelt have in common? For starters they both loved nature and also they have new books out about them from Gibbs Smith Books! Keep reading to find out more about their books on the BabyLit® Little Naturalists Series. BabyLit® Little Naturalists Series Today I want to introduce the two newest books in the BabyLit® Little Naturalists series.…