The Born Community: Cozy Classics - Board Books for Children AND Parents!

Ever fancied reading War and Peace but never got past the first page? Now's your chance to not only read the book, but share it with your little one too!

The rather brilliant Cozy Classics range of board books for children (and adults?!) re-tell the Classics using only twelve child-friendly words, each appearing alongside a needle-felted illustration.

For younger toddlers, the books provide a way to start building vocabulary and understanding links between words and pictures, but rather than using the traditional "cat" and "apple", give slightly more 'grippier' words such as "talk", "dance", "sisters", "muddy" and "love".

Older toddlers and children find the books can help them relate to a sense of narrative, developing an understanding of how the words and pictures build up a story.

And this is where the real fun begins! The words and illustrations follow the classic story but are so flexible that you and your little one can use them as prompts to make up completely new stories yourselves. Brilliant for encouraging blossoming imaginations and creativity and extremely handy if you're a bit rusty on the classics!

The illustrations in the books are a joy in themselves. All of the felted figures and objects in Cozy Classics were painstakingly made by hand and there are no computer created graphics used in the creation of the illustrations. For example, the skies which appear in Moby Dick are natural backdrops, either captured by shooting photographs out open windows or on location.

The Cozy Classics are written and illustrated by twin brothers Jack and Holman Wang

We love these books because they are not intended as a start to the academic life of your child, or to get them further ahead in the race to university! They are simply beautifully illustrated books that give us as parents a chance to share stories and characters that we love themselves. If you haven't read the books since school, there are short "Cozy" reminder versions of the stories available on our website, alongside the books or on the Cozy Classics site. And if the classics are new to you - what better chance to get to know them than to share that discovery with your child?