Cozy Classics: Moby Dick

I'm a literature nerd, and I'm determined to indoctrinate my nephews in the classics. Obviously, I had to check this out. This adaptation of Moby Dick is great. Obviously the plot is sparse here, and it doesn't quite have Melville's prosaic qualities — but who cares? The illustrations are beautiful, and the few words present throughout the book convey a lot. Even if my nephew can't write his dissertation using this edition of Moby Dick, he enjoys it quite a lot. If nothing else, it has fun pictures of whales, and what kid doesn't like whales? Plus it's a lot more fun for me to read to him than another book about some anthropomorphized animal toddler taking a bath or something. I'm excited to have found this, and I intend to get many of the other books in the series. Full disclosure: my sister-in-law, the mother of my nephews, is a little perturbed by this. She thinks it's weird. But who cares? The kid loves it.

Each page has a full page sized picture and the minute details in the artwork are visible and beautiful. Words are not just Nouns and the plot is evident but not obvious so these books leave possibilities for the parent to create wonderful stories for their children if the mood allows. Cools colors used in the felt work and most posed in action shots, just darling to view.

I have to say, I bought this for my LO (now 1) b/c I was fascinated by the idea of Classics for a baby and I am SHOCKED by how much he loves this. I leave a pile of books out for him at any given time and for some reason, he will pick this book out of the pile and hand it to myself or my husband so we can "read" it to him. He loves the pictures & I like that we can add some narration around the pictures on the pages.

We bought this for our 2 year old and it was an immediate hit. We had to have a Moby Dick themed birthday party (white whale cake) and several months into his third year he's still obsessed with the story. There's another children's book about Moby Dick and a "graphic novel" pop-up book, both of which compliment this book (and both are available on Amazon). The Cozy Classic is the best intro, however. Your child will memorize the words and that's good reading practice. If your child runs with the story like ours did, stage III can involve the Gregory Peck movie, a trip to New Bedford's whaling museum and of course a whale watch.

I love the felt doll illustrations and that in Moby Dick, and all the cozy classics, the story is clear even with one word per page. It is a great way to expose the little ones to classic literature in an age appropriate way.

This book takes images from the classic Moby Dick, and presents them to the young child in the form of a photograph of a hand-felted object. It tells the story in 12 words. I read this with my nine-month-old before giving it to a one-year-old for a birthday gift. We both thoroughly enjoyed it. Where the illustrations and little abstract? Absolutely. But so are the illustrations in many children's books and this series exposes the child to a different visual texture than any other book I've seen. And illustrating a verb can be very difficult. We used the whale from our Boon bath set and put it next to the whale in this book and she made the connection that they were the same. Both are abstract. We own many titles in the BabyLit collection, including Moby Dick: an ocean primer. These are also a collection of classics for written for babies, but are more focused on comparisons, counting, or colors. I would feel comfortable having books from both collections in our baby Library. In fact, we have Pride and Prejudice on its way to us now from the Cozy Classics collection. They are different because the Cozy Classics collection teaches words when the other collection teaches concepts. I think both are important in baby development. That said, we will continue to buy more BabyLit than Cozy Classics. Feel comfortable purchasing this for the baby in your life. It is not too gruesome as it is fairly abstract.

I bought Cozy Classics Moby Dick for my grandson who is almost two. I loved the pictures and it really does tell the story of Moby Dick in twelve words! I hope I can entice him to read classics by finding other age appropriate versions of great literature as he grows. Being a Jane Austen fan, I just bought the Cozy Classics of Pride and Prejudice for myself...but I'll share.

My brother and I are in or 50s. Neither one of us ever made it through Moby Dick, even as an audiobook. Now we have! I bought this book for his birthday. Within an hour our entire family had read Moby Dick! Amazing! The illustrations are incredible. I love fiberarts and love the detail on the felted characters. Well worth buying for any age!

The original text is hundreds of pages long, and somewhat overrated in my view. I thought a nicely illustrated version would be easier for younger readers to finish, but was horrified to find it has been mercilessly abridged. Not suitable as a reference copy for exams.

Just boring pictures with no story. And the pictures are creepy, like an iron leg. Who wants to explain to their baby this sort of thing.

Perfect introduction to classics quick delivery in time for Christmas

Very nice book

As adorable as ever, never disappointed with these Cozy Classics books!