Give little ones a perfect start with BabyLit—charming books that create precious bonding moments while introducing classics and building essential skills that plant seeds for lifelong learning and literary appreciation. Best Board Books, 2025 theSkimm Good For You Awards BabyLit® is a fashionable way to introduce your toddler to the world of classic literature. With clever, simple text by Jennifer Adams, paired with stylish design and illustrations by Sugar’s Alison Oliver, these books are a must for every savvy parent’s nursery library. PreS-K—Hitting most of the major plot points of the original, this simplistic preschool abridgement features a sweetly unthreatening monster and concludes with Frankenstein drifting cheerfully away on an Arctic ice floe with his animal friends. Saturated illustrations evoke the look of animated children's films with fully realized backdrops of a Swiss village, the alpine countryside, and the North Pole. One almost expects the characters to start moving. VERDICT Will this prepare children for Mary Shelley's classic some decades hence? It's both too complex and too simplified to matter.—Jan Aldrich Solow, formerly Fairfax County Public Sch., VA This is a fun book to use to introduce young children to their body parts.  Read the book aloud and ask your child to identify their same body parts as your cruise through this adorable book.  This monster is not scary and will introduce your child to a great literary character while teaching them their body parts.  This book takes you down from the head all the way to the toes. -- Angela Addington ― mom-spot.com This is a fun book to use to introduce young children to their body parts. Read the book aloud and ask your child to identify their same body parts as your cruise through this adorable book. This monster is not scary and will introduce your child to a great literary character while teaching them their body parts. This book takes you down from the head all the way to the toes. “… what really sold me on the [BabyLit] franchise was Frankenstein , the simple text by Jennifer Adams, and art by Alison Oliver. Instead of the book trying to summarize the plot of Frankenstein in a few pages, it has a tongue in cheek component.” -- Elisa Shoenberger ― Book Riot This is a fun book to use to introduce young children to their body parts.  Read the book aloud and ask your child to identify their same body parts as your cruise through this adorable book.  This monster is not scary and will introduce your child to a great literary character while teaching them their body parts.  This book takes you down from the head all the way to the toes. -- Angela Addington ― mom-spot.com Published On: 2018-01-02 This is a fun book to use to introduce young children to their body parts. Read the book aloud and ask your child to identify their same body parts as your cruise through this adorable book. This monster is not scary and will introduce your child to a great literary character while teaching them their body parts. This book takes you down from the head all the way to the toes. “… what really sold me on the [BabyLit] franchise was Frankenstein , the simple text by Jennifer Adams, and art by Alison Oliver. Instead of the book trying to summarize the plot of Frankenstein in a few pages, it has a tongue in cheek component.” -- Elisa Shoenberger ― Book Riot Published On: 2022-07-22 Give little ones a perfect start with BabyLit―charming books that create precious bonding moments while introducing classics and building essential skills that plant seeds for lifelong learning and literary appreciation. JENNIFER ADAMS is the author of more than 30 books, including board books in the best-selling BabyLit series which introduce young children to the world of classic literature. Jennifer works as a writer and editor in Salt Lake City, Utah. Visit her website at jennifer-adams.com. 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. "I BECAME ACQUAINTED WITH THE SCIENCE OF ANATOMY. " -DR. FRANKENSTEIN "SUCH A MONSTER HAS, THEN, REALLY EXISTENCE!"