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Cozy Classics: Great Expectations Board book – March 8, 2016

by Jack Wang (Author), Holman Wang (Author)
4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
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Cuddle up with a classic! In twelve needle-felted scenes and twelve child-friendly words, each book in this ingenious series captures the essence of a literary masterpiece. Simple words, sturdy pages, and a beloved story make these books the perfect vehicle for early learning with an erudite twist. Budding bookworms will delight in this clever retelling of the classics made just for them!

Charles Dickens' Great Expectations introduces the orphan boy Pip, a very pretty young lady, and Pip's exciting adventures in the city. It's a first words primer for your literary little one!

The Cozy Classics series is the brainchild of two brothers, both dads, who were thinking of ways to teach words to their very young children. They hit upon the classics as the basis for their infant primers, and the rest, as they say, is history. From Moby Dick to Pride and Prejudice, here are The Great Books of Western Literature for toddlers and their parents in board book form—a little bit serious, a little bit ironic, entirely funny and clever, and always a welcome gift.
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  1. Reading age
    Baby - 2 years
  2. Print length
    24 pages
  3. Language
    English
  4. Grade level
    Preschool and up
  5. Lexile measure
    NP
  6. Dimensions
    5.5 x 0.63 x 7.5 inches
  7. Publisher
    Chronicle Books
  8. Publication date
    March 8, 2016
  9. ISBN-10
    1452152438
  10. ISBN-13
    978-1452152431
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"The figurines and the sets they create for their characters are amazing."--Geek Dad

"The figurines and the sets they create for their characters are amazing."--Geek Dad

About the Author

Jack and Holman Wang are twin brothers who grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia, where Holman still lives. As well as being the creators of the Star Wars Epic Yarns board books, Jack is a professor of writing at Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York, and Holman, a former middle school teacher, is an artist and author.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Chronicle Books; Brdbk edition (March 8, 2016)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Board book ‏ : ‎ 24 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1452152438
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1452152431
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ Baby - 2 years
  • Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ NP
  • Grade level ‏ : ‎ Preschool and up
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 8.8 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.63 x 7.5 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 23 ratings

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  1. Holman Wang

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    Holman's foray into the world of children's books began with his twin brother Jack. They grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia, and first began writing and illustrating books together in the third grade. They are the twin powers behind the board book series Star Wars Epic Yarns, which offers a lightspeed take on each of three original Star Wars movies, and Cozy Classics, which abridges classics like "Pride and Prejudice" and "Moby Dick" into 12 words and 12 needle-felted illustrations.

    "Great Job, Mom!" and "Great Job, Dad!" are Holman's first solo kidlit projects.

    Holman is a former middle-school teacher. He has an education degree, a masters degree (architecture history) and a law degree, all from the University of British Columbia. Holman currently practices law while finding time to make children's books.

    Holman and Jack's unique artwork combines needle felting, scale-model set-making and photography. Their work has been exhibited at Bologna Children's Book Fair Illustrators Exhibition (2013), The Original Art exhibition in New York (Society of Illustrators, 2015), and the National Museum of Play. Their work has also been featured in the New York Times, People, the Wall Street Journal, the Huffington Post, The Telegraph, New York Magazine, The Paris Review, Parents magazine, American Craft magazine, CBC, and The Globe and Mail.

    Holman and Jack are also the creators of the Google Doodle honoring the 148th birthday of Laura Ingalls Wilder (of "Little House on the Prairie" fame), which appeared on February 7, 2015.

    Holman lives with his wife and two children in Vancouver, Canada.

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    JACK WANG is the author of the story collection WE TWO ALONE (House of Anansi Press, 2020; HarperVia, 2021), shortlisted for the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize and winner of the Danuta Gleed Literary Award from the Writers’ Union of Canada for best debut collection in English. His fiction has appeared in Brick, PRISM international, The Malahat Review, The New Quarterly, The Humber Literary Review, and Joyland and has been shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize and longlisted for the Journey Prize. In 2014–15, he held the David T. K. Wong Creative Writing Fellowship at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England, and in 2020, he was awarded a residency at Historic Joy Kogawa House in Vancouver. He holds an MFA from the University of Arizona and a PhD from Florida State University, and he is an associate professor in the Department of Writing at Ithaca College. Originally from Vancouver, he lives in Ithaca, New York, with his wife, novelist Angelina Mirabella, and their two daughters.

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Alaska Mike
5.0 out of 5 stars These are Art Books
Reviewed in the United States on January 11, 2018
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Unbelievable amount of detail in each picture!!!

This artist has created true art. Both my wife and I stare at the details and we can follow the story through the emotion the artist has put into the creation.

Absolutly Amazing
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5.0 out of 5 stars My grandson hated reading Great Expectations in school
Reviewed in the United States on July 31, 2016
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My grandson hated reading Great Expectations in school, so naturally I wanted to get him a special copy for his library when he graduated. He loved it. He said he wouldn't have appreciated it nearly as much if he hadn't read the original.
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ACM
5.0 out of 5 stars Get them started early
Reviewed in the United States on June 8, 2017
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A hilarious, educational book - great gift for children.
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Carla marquez
3.0 out of 5 stars Book is not new/perfect condition
Reviewed in the United States on November 29, 2021
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I bought this book as "New" and it came with scuff marks and a pencil mark on the sides. The inside of the book seems to be fine, but what looks to be sticker residue is still on the back. It's like if someone ripped off an old sticker and this yellow stuff is hard to come off . I'm not sure how I feel about giving this as a gift. I'll decide later or to return and buy from target since I see it on their website.

In terms of content, it a fine book for babies who love to look a pictures. It may not be a lot of words but atleast it will distract a child long enough to ignore the tv/tablet.
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Cynthia Hudson
4.0 out of 5 stars Courtesy of Mother Daughter Book Club. com
Reviewed in the United States on August 5, 2016
How can board books even come close to teaching children about classic books like Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations and Jane Austen’s Pride & Prejudice? The answer is they don’t, but that’s not the point of the Cozy Classics series, which includes those two titles as well as Leo Tolstoy’s War & Peace and Herman Melville’s Moby Dick.

The collection is written and illustrated with doll-like hand-felted figures by two brothers who hit upon the concept while searching for a way to teach their young children new words. Each two-page layout features a single word for parents to teach their infants. For instance, Great Expectations boils down to boy, help, old, pretty, cry, money, and a few others. Parents familiar with the story can explain more or not, as they gauge their children’s interest.

I could see, say, a parent reading the word “friends” from the first page of Pride & Prejudice, which shows two men, and creating a story for the child that mirrors the classic by saying, “two friends came to stay in a grand house in the English countryside.”

Infants and children will appreciate lap time with mom and dad as they learn new words. Parents can enjoy thinking about their favorite pieces of classic literature in a new light. It’s all fun. And the popularity of the series means that many more titles are on the way to publication.

The publisher provided me with a copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.
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Kelly R.
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent for little
Reviewed in the United States on December 10, 2016
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Bought all the collection. Excellent for little ones
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5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on October 19, 2016
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read the classics in one day !
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D. Fowler
5.0 out of 5 stars A marvelous recreation of the characters and scenery in Great Expectations for the preschooler ...
Reviewed in the United States on May 4, 2016
Many of us started out with Whitman Classics, abbreviated versions of the “real” tales yet to await us. Jack & Holman Wang have created a wonderfully innovative series, the Cozy Classics, that begin to introduce the classics to an even younger crowd. I’ve always loved and appreciated mixed media collage and cut paper collage that illustrate books. For example, Caroline Arnold has some fabulous cut paper animal books. The creative illustrations in the Cozy Classics series are simply amazing.

Each page has a felt doll creation in a dollhouse-like setting depicting the main scenes in Great Expectations. We begin with a forlorn looking Pip peering up at us as he stands above the beginning of Charles Dickens’s classic tale. On each two-page spread is a word that describes the scene. Words used are boy, help, old, pretty, cry, money, city, manners, me!, sorry, fire, and garden. Of course these felt dolls include Pip, the escaped convict, Miss Havisham, and Estella,

This board book is geared toward the preschooler, the emergent or nonreader. The story of Great Expectations can be briefly narrated in one’s own words, a wonderful way to get our youngest readers interested in the classic tales yet to come. The tale, including such scenery as the Satis House, is exquisitely captured in these pages. Perhaps not for everyone, for every family, but I certainly loved this tale recreated in yet another Cozy Classics book!

COZY CLASSICS:

 War and Peace

Pride & Prejudice

Moby Dick

Great Expectations

Oliver Twist

Les Misérables

Emma

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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Abby
1.0 out of 5 stars One Star
Reviewed in Canada on October 22, 2016
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