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 Salt Lake City.
- Wuthering Heights - a BabyLit� Weather Primer
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
Least liked of BabyLit Series
By UAMich
The drawings are all similar in this book and the quotes from the book are not well suited for a toddler. My daughter vastly prefers the Alice in Wonderland, Sense and Sensibility, Christmas Carol or Romeo and Juliet. I highly recommend the others from BabyLit but we were disappointed in this one.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Stormy Weather
By prisrob
"Oh oh, keeps raining all of the timeOh, yeah, yeah, yeah, raining all of the timeStormy, stormy, stormy weather, yeah"David BellWe all want to know about the weather, will it rain or snow. Will the sun shine for our picnic? This book is not like our usual media weather report. This book is a wonderful book on weather, a primer, it says.'Wuthering Heights', the other book has a great deal of weather in it's pages, it was a blustery countryside, that part of England where Wuthering Heights stood. This Wuthering Heights, the weather primer, gives us the lowdown all about weather. Sunny, rainy, breezy, we see and hear what that kind of weather might entail. The author, Jennifer Adams has given us a wonderfully light and bright review of weather and a take off of 'Wthering Heights'. What could be better? Well, the illustrations by Alison Oliver, give us such bright,vivid colorful illustrations that depict the weather in all of it's glory. Parents/teachers/children will have such fun reading this book and talking about all the different kinds of weather. Children want to know what Sunny, breezy, and rainy means. Now, when they look out the window they can identify the weather with a little help from an adult.I loved this book and think most parents will also. Who would believe your toddler is reading 'Wuthering Heights'? Note: I was given this book to read and review.Recommended. prisrob 02-28-14
10 of 15 people found the following review helpful.For lovers of Wuthering Heights with a particular sense of humor. Only.
By Amazon Customer
Look, let's be real here. Wuthering Heights isn't for everyone and it certainly isn't for toddlers. Toddler books are fantastically dull. Any parent who claims to enjoy reading toddler books either has an exclusive library of Sandra Boynton books or is lying through their teeth.To appreciate this book, you have to be familiar with Wuthering Heights and to either be a complete and utter literature dork (preferably with a Masters degree or above) or have studied this book in an English Lit class. For those of you who haven't, here are the cliff notes. It is a pretty dark book, full of tumultuous emotion and cruelty. It is also full of passionate (emotional, not physical) love. Weather is a central theme in the book. Instead of writing that Heathcliff felt like someone was flossing his heart with barbed wire when Cathy ran off with Edgar Linton there is a tremendous great storm on the moors that gets a long and graphic description. (Okay, hand up, I have a toddler AND a nearly 7yo, I haven't read the book in years. I'm pulling this out my arse as an example of how weather is used in the book.)I don't want to speak for Jennifer Adams since I don't know her and have never exchanged correspondence with her, but I'm willing to bet that the thought process went like this: "I love Wuthering Heights. I hate toddler books. I know, I'll make a toddler book about weather and put in some quotes from Wuthering Heights for me so I don't tear my eyeballs from my face when reading to my toddler."It's conceivable that she thought "For my toddler's well-rounded development I need a book about weather. I will include quotes from quality literature to extend my toddler's vocabulary and introduce good sentence structure. Hmm. Weather. Oh, I know, Wuthering Heights." Not likely, is it?I'm all for this craze of enrichment for toddlers and early childhood development and STEM toys and needing a thing to do stuff that talking with eye contact, telling stories, kicking stones and playing with sticks did for children for centuries. Let's be honest. Your toddler is going to get as much out of this book as they will out of some crappy book that has one word and one simple picture per page. This book is for parents who can't remember when they last got through more than one page of a good book without falling asleep. It's for parents who remember fondly when they curled up under a blanket in front of the fire with hot chocolate and a good book and spent an entire weekend in their pajamas reading. It's a reminder that returning to such a life is only about 15 years away.If you want a book that will make your toddler laugh, get something by Sandra Boynton. My favorites are Are You A Cow? and Moo, Baa, La La La. If you want something for you, get some BabyLit. If you like Wuthering Heights, get this BabyLit book.
