BabyLit

[Katz, Michael R.]

Dear colleagues:

I could live with Oprah's choosing Anna Karenina for her book club, in spite of the many reservations and objections voiced on this venerable listserv.

BUT, now this: Little Master Tolstoy: Anna Karenina, A Fashion Primer by Jennifer Adams, published by Gibbs Smith (Layton, Utah) in July 2013.

Check out the website for the new series: http://www.babylit.com/

The back cover declares: "BabyLit is a fashionable way to introduce your child to the world of classic literature."

The "text" mixes a few quotations from the novel with "exercises" for your baby to locate various items in the illustrations (by Alison Oliver): a fan, an earring, hairpins, feather, clasp, parasol, etc.

Sorry, but we have to draw the line somewhere.

Yours in mourning,

Michael Katz
Middlebury College

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