Observe the life and loves of the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne, in Sense & Sensibility: A BabyLit Opposites Primer. Learn the difference between big Norland Park and little Barton Cottage, happy Mr. Willoughby and sad Colonel Brandon, while hoping that one day Elinor and Marianne will leave their single days behind them and celebrate worthy marriages.
Jennifer Adams is the author of a dozen books including Remarkably Jane: Notable Quotations on Jane Austen and the popular Y Is for Yorick: A Slightly Irreverent ABC Book for Grown-Ups. Jennifer works as a writer and editor in Philadelphia.
Alison Oliver runs Sugar design studio. Alison’s design portfolio includes everything from logos to packaging and product design for clients such as Chronicle Books, Citibabes, and Aerie, as well as Gibbs Smith. She lives in New York.
- Sense and Sensibility - a BabyLit� Opposites Primer
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27 of 29 people found the following review helpful.
Disappointed
By Desilu
I have several of the Baby Lit board books for my daughter and was very excited about the release of Sense and Sensibility. What was a good idea in theory was not very well executed. The opposites used were things that would be difficult to adequately illustrate on the page. For example "Quiet" showed a piano and "Noisy" showed a piano with several music notes around it. "New vs. old" showed two dresses that were very similar and we are supposed to understand that one is new and the other old. Don't even get me started on the fact that this baby book introduces "married vs. single".The illustrations are unbelievably beautiful as all of her books are, but if you are looking for a Baby Lit book I would recommend Pride and Prejudice or Alice in Wonderland.
152 of 187 people found the following review helpful.Totally inappropriate
By Susan
The idea of opposites is a good one and the illustrations are nice. BUT, in order to show the opposites of single and married, they show an unhappy single girl and contrast it to a big, beautiful wedding cake with a jubilant couple on top. The message is clear: single is sad and married is happy. I'm not willing to pass that Cinderella philosophy to a child of the 21st century. Single doesn't mean unwhole. Marriage doesn't mean whole, happily ever after, end of story. I like fantasy, but not when it's judgemental.
22 of 25 people found the following review helpful.Great idea, not well executed
By Elizabeth Robison
I am quite fond of the BabyLit series in general. Most of all, I'm excited to introduce my baby to classic titles, authors, and themes. However, I expected something different from this book, which is subtitled "An Opposites Primer." Unfortunately, I think several of the opposites that are presented are hard to convey in a board book for children. For example, noisy vs. quiet, single vs. married, and hard vs. soft don't "come alive" for children very easily. Whereas I enjoy some humor for the adults reading the stories, I think there are a lot of other opposites that young children can comprehend and could have been included in the book. In this series, I prefer "Pride and Prejudice" and "Wuthering Heights."
