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BabyLit® Primers
Wuthering Heights: A BabyLit® Weather Primer
BabyLit: A series of board books for brilliant babies.
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.
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.
24 pages, Board book
First published February 1, 2013
About the author
Jennifer Adams
180 books190 followersLibrarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.
Jennifer Adams is the author of more than forty books. Her bestselling BabyLit board books (published by Gibbs Smith) introduce small children to the world of classic literature and have sold 1.5 million copies. She is the author of another series of board books, My Little Cities.
Jennifer’s picture books for children, Edgar Gets Ready for Bed, Edgar and the Tattle-Tale Heart and Edgar and the Tree House of Usher are inspired by Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “The Raven.” She also has two new picture books forthcoming from HarperCollins.
Her titles also include books for adults, including Y is for Yorick, a slightly irreverent look at Shakespeare, and Remarkably Jane, notable quotations on Jane Austen.
Jennifer graduated from the University of Washington. She has 20 years’ experience as a book editor, including at Gibbs Smith and Quirk Books. She currently works as a consulting editor for Sounds True, developing their children’s line. Jennifer works some evenings at her local independent bookstore, The King’s English, to feed her book habit. She lives in Salt Lake City with her husband, Bill Dunford, who is also a writer.
(bio from author's website)
Jennifer Adams is the author of more than forty books. Her bestselling BabyLit board books (published by Gibbs Smith) introduce small children to the world of classic literature and have sold 1.5 million copies. She is the author of another series of board books, My Little Cities.
Jennifer’s picture books for children, Edgar Gets Ready for Bed, Edgar and the Tattle-Tale Heart and Edgar and the Tree House of Usher are inspired by Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “The Raven.” She also has two new picture books forthcoming from HarperCollins.
Her titles also include books for adults, including Y is for Yorick, a slightly irreverent look at Shakespeare, and Remarkably Jane, notable quotations on Jane Austen.
Jennifer graduated from the University of Washington. She has 20 years’ experience as a book editor, including at Gibbs Smith and Quirk Books. She currently works as a consulting editor for Sounds True, developing their children’s line. Jennifer works some evenings at her local independent bookstore, The King’s English, to feed her book habit. She lives in Salt Lake City with her husband, Bill Dunford, who is also a writer.
(bio from author's website)
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June 30, 2018
july will be spent celebrating the emily bronte bicentenary. step one: i have made a booklist!
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this book series is a cute idea - each volume uses text extracted from a specific work of classic littrature that features concepts even a toddler could understand; quotes about colors, numbers, etc, and the logic is that this is a fun and age-appropriate way to instill a love of literature at a very early stage. but let’s be honest - we both know that this exercise is more for the parents than the kids. ain’t no one reading wuthering heights for its weather scenes, and this meteorological-based reduction doesn’t give any sense of the story (which is probably for the best), or even feature any memorable lines - these sentences could be taken from any book, or have been created specifically for a board book about weather. and i don’t think that what is here would be enough to germinate interest in anyone ever reading the real book. i can’t picture a toddler growing up into its reading age and thinking - "hey, i remember that rainy board book mommy and daddy read me when i was little. i wonder what the real book is like!”
although i’m surprised that there was such a range of weather to highlight from w.h. - my overall weather-memory of it is gloom gloom gloom, but here we have: breezy, sunny, cloudy, windy, stormy, rainy, misty, snowy, and still, which sounds like a roll call of santa’s gothiest reindeer.
again, it's a cute idea, and i like the illustrations, especially this one:
cuz it looks like something outta moominvalley or like this:
but don’t be the kind of smug parent feeding your kids carob and kale chips, thinking that exposing a toddler to this oh-so-memorable line from wuthering heights:
is the same as instilling a love of literature in them, or even doing a good job summarizing wuthering heights, unless you are also going to call attention to this detail:
and explain how later, heathcliff will hang these puppies by the neck.
or that yes, we learn about how stormy it is in the dubya-aitch
and this guy’s just wandering around in it, probably returning from sobbing over the grave of his beloved, who died after giving birth to another man’s baby whose life and family he’s gonna now destroy! also, goo goo gaa gaa.
dude, no way did heathcliff build that snowman.
but i get it - reading to a toddler has got to be boring as hell for a parent. they probably already knew all their colors and numbers before making a baby, and this is just a way to keep this dull developmental stage interesting and remind them of a time when they used to read real books with real sentences.
so get through this - wuther the storm - read your kids whatever's going to be the least painful for you until you get them to the age when reading finally becomes fun for both of you. you can do it!
come to my blog!
http://bloggycomelately.com/bicntenar...
this book series is a cute idea - each volume uses text extracted from a specific work of classic littrature that features concepts even a toddler could understand; quotes about colors, numbers, etc, and the logic is that this is a fun and age-appropriate way to instill a love of literature at a very early stage. but let’s be honest - we both know that this exercise is more for the parents than the kids. ain’t no one reading wuthering heights for its weather scenes, and this meteorological-based reduction doesn’t give any sense of the story (which is probably for the best), or even feature any memorable lines - these sentences could be taken from any book, or have been created specifically for a board book about weather. and i don’t think that what is here would be enough to germinate interest in anyone ever reading the real book. i can’t picture a toddler growing up into its reading age and thinking - "hey, i remember that rainy board book mommy and daddy read me when i was little. i wonder what the real book is like!”
although i’m surprised that there was such a range of weather to highlight from w.h. - my overall weather-memory of it is gloom gloom gloom, but here we have: breezy, sunny, cloudy, windy, stormy, rainy, misty, snowy, and still, which sounds like a roll call of santa’s gothiest reindeer.
again, it's a cute idea, and i like the illustrations, especially this one:
cuz it looks like something outta moominvalley or like this:
but don’t be the kind of smug parent feeding your kids carob and kale chips, thinking that exposing a toddler to this oh-so-memorable line from wuthering heights:
is the same as instilling a love of literature in them, or even doing a good job summarizing wuthering heights, unless you are also going to call attention to this detail:
and explain how later, heathcliff will hang these puppies by the neck.
or that yes, we learn about how stormy it is in the dubya-aitch
and this guy’s just wandering around in it, probably returning from sobbing over the grave of his beloved, who died after giving birth to another man’s baby whose life and family he’s gonna now destroy! also, goo goo gaa gaa.
dude, no way did heathcliff build that snowman.
but i get it - reading to a toddler has got to be boring as hell for a parent. they probably already knew all their colors and numbers before making a baby, and this is just a way to keep this dull developmental stage interesting and remind them of a time when they used to read real books with real sentences.
so get through this - wuther the storm - read your kids whatever's going to be the least painful for you until you get them to the age when reading finally becomes fun for both of you. you can do it!
come to my blog!
October 16, 2018
I just reread Wuthering Heights, and really liked it, so it was fun to read this board book. It’s one of 23 board books by Jennifer Addams for toddlers based on classical literature! It’s kinda like board books for English teachers or librarian’s babies! Or just people like me who love some of the classics on which the series is based.
All of them are about the classic book in some ways, but also have a toddler-need focus, and this one has quotes from the book, and both summarizes or alludes to some key elements (for a parent) of the plot, but is also a primer focused on a baby level introduction to weather, teaching different weather concepts such as "misty," "windy,” "snowy,” and “still,” which comes with a quote: “The mild glory of a rising moon.”
This is my fourth baby lit book, maybe my least favorite because least connected to the plot. But this one is like the others cute, funny, sweet, and has great illustrations by Allison Oliver.
All of them are about the classic book in some ways, but also have a toddler-need focus, and this one has quotes from the book, and both summarizes or alludes to some key elements (for a parent) of the plot, but is also a primer focused on a baby level introduction to weather, teaching different weather concepts such as "misty," "windy,” "snowy,” and “still,” which comes with a quote: “The mild glory of a rising moon.”
This is my fourth baby lit book, maybe my least favorite because least connected to the plot. But this one is like the others cute, funny, sweet, and has great illustrations by Allison Oliver.
May 20, 2015
I haven't read Wuthering Heights, but I tried to suffer through a graphic novel version. I prefer this--much less drama.
October 3, 2016
Very cute idea and illustrations!
August 24, 2019
Maybe my favorite primer so far. Pictures are good, short sentences, definitely a winner!
January 17, 2022
I didn't know that the world needed a weather primer based on a Bronte novel. It did.
October 26, 2020
Love, love , love this series! Engaging primers for toddlers, with the added benefit of preparing them for big literature later on.
March 13, 2021
Gorgeous but a little old for E.
June 16, 2015
Wuthering Heights is the name of a house on the stormy English countryside, and things evidently happen there, but mostly having to do with the weather.
My general non-love of this story notwithstanding, I'm sorry to say this weather primer version didn't really measure up to the rest of the BabyLit series for me. I like how it features more of the actual text from the book, and how it defines "wuthering" at the very beginning (a word I didn't understand until far later in life than when I probably should have), but some of the weather aspects presented don't translate that well, and it doesn't incorporate elements of the story as well as others in the series do.
My general non-love of this story notwithstanding, I'm sorry to say this weather primer version didn't really measure up to the rest of the BabyLit series for me. I like how it features more of the actual text from the book, and how it defines "wuthering" at the very beginning (a word I didn't understand until far later in life than when I probably should have), but some of the weather aspects presented don't translate that well, and it doesn't incorporate elements of the story as well as others in the series do.
July 12, 2016
I really love these illustrations!
June 10, 2017
This is a children's board book that contains one word and one illustration, on every other page, throughout the entirety of the book. I will admit that I visibly cringed when I saw that this was a children's adaptation of Wuthering Heights, however I did try to give it a fair chance. I tried and failed, that is.
ONE: I cannot understand why there is a children's adaptation of Wuthering Heights. In my opinion, there should not be. TWO: One word and illustration on every other page does not a book make. Even if it is a board book. It is just strange and confusing and NO. Therefore, I did not enjoy this book (or any of the other BabyLit books that I have encountered) and would not recommend it to anyone.
ONE: I cannot understand why there is a children's adaptation of Wuthering Heights. In my opinion, there should not be. TWO: One word and illustration on every other page does not a book make. Even if it is a board book. It is just strange and confusing and NO. Therefore, I did not enjoy this book (or any of the other BabyLit books that I have encountered) and would not recommend it to anyone.
March 3, 2018
I suspect that adult lovers of classic books will be more into this board book than the baby set. (Smart from a marketing angle.) But the book has a certain charm, and one supposes that the fact that baby is being read to is the main thing.
Irksome to any proofreader or editor: The very first sentence is missing an opening quotation mark. Given that there are only 11 sentences in the entire book, all of them quotes from Emily Brontë’s beloved novel, this is not good. Baby may not notice, but us grownups will tut-tut.
My favourite quote used in this weather primer is the last in the board book, associated with “still” weather: “The mild glory of a rising moon.” Complete with opening and closing quotation marks.
Irksome to any proofreader or editor: The very first sentence is missing an opening quotation mark. Given that there are only 11 sentences in the entire book, all of them quotes from Emily Brontë’s beloved novel, this is not good. Baby may not notice, but us grownups will tut-tut.
My favourite quote used in this weather primer is the last in the board book, associated with “still” weather: “The mild glory of a rising moon.” Complete with opening and closing quotation marks.
July 23, 2017
Wuthering Heights is perhaps one of a handful of my favorite books so when I saw this I knew I wanted my granddaughter ( age 2 ) to start learning about the book.
The toddler friendly version of Wuthering Heights is a weather primer. I find this Babylit book to be very child friendly. Yes, there are occasional words such as Fury and atmospheric tumult that they won't necessarily comprehend however I say words to my granddaughter all the time that she doesn't understand. This is how we learn. As far as weather goes, it goes from Breezy to Sunny and all the way to Still.
Yep, I am very partial to this particular book.
The toddler friendly version of Wuthering Heights is a weather primer. I find this Babylit book to be very child friendly. Yes, there are occasional words such as Fury and atmospheric tumult that they won't necessarily comprehend however I say words to my granddaughter all the time that she doesn't understand. This is how we learn. As far as weather goes, it goes from Breezy to Sunny and all the way to Still.
Yep, I am very partial to this particular book.
January 19, 2020
This is a fun book that depicts several different weather and atmospheric conditions as portrayed in the classic novel, Wuthering Heights.
I have to admit that I have not read Emily Brontë's story yet, but I know enough about the basic plot to appreciate this fun children's book.
The illustrations capture the essence of the various weather states while maintaining a static view of the manse.
I have to admit that I have not read Emily Brontë's story yet, but I know enough about the basic plot to appreciate this fun children's book.
The illustrations capture the essence of the various weather states while maintaining a static view of the manse.
December 27, 2019
this is one of my favorites of the BabyLit board books -- and I daresay I enjoyed it more than the actual Wuthering Heights! hahahaha. this "weather primer" shows wuthering heights in all stages of weather with a quote pulled from the book for each scene. perhaps my favorite thing of all is how much Isaac loved this one for a spell this summer and how -- when I mentioned that it was supposed to storm one day -- he wisely nodded and replied "yeah, like in wuthering heights." hahahaha.
April 16, 2021
I almost feel like I need to make a new bookshelf, it would be called "Books I think I need to own, but am not sure why?" I do not know what it is about these little BabyLit books. I continue to pick them up at the thrift stores. I imagine this book doesn't get too high of ratings from children, but they give me a big smile.
August 25, 2018
I LOVE the illustrations in this baby introduction to weather through the classic of Wuthering heights. The illustrations are fun for both parent and baby alike. While this book is not layed out as a story, it's a fun not to the classic.
June 16, 2019
Me encantan las ilustraciones y la idea de centrarlo alrededor del tiempo atmosférico y de usar frases sacadas directamente del libro. Dicho esto... no sé hasta qué punto está bien adaptado para un niño. Eso sí, para adultos que leen libros infantiles está estupendo. XD
November 29, 2019
BabyLit is a series of board books that uses classic works of literature to teach a concept. This board book uses Emily Bronte's "Wuthering Heights" and the concept is weather. It is a cute series with nice illustrations.
August 26, 2020
For: lit fans; readers looking for a book with depictions of the weather and its temperaments.
Possible red flags: doesn't really follow the original work or give context to that story; a lot more text than is usual for this age group.
Possible red flags: doesn't really follow the original work or give context to that story; a lot more text than is usual for this age group.
June 3, 2017
The quotes are probably incomprehensible to young children, but the pictures and weather descriptive word go well together.
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August 16, 2017Concepts of rain, sun and general weather are explained through charming depictions of Wuthering Heights.
February 5, 2018
A great deal more positive than the original book.
August 2, 2018
A bit slow. Not my favourite.
September 6, 2019
A good idea to have the same setting for each picture with the weather being the only change. Still a difficult concept to grasp for the little ones.
February 5, 2020
Not one of TJ's favorites.
November 26, 2020
My daughter enjoyed point out pictures of the sun and clouds.
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February 18, 2021From Andrea
June 8, 2023
My 2yo loves the onomatopoeias and my 6yo loves all of the Easter eggs in the illustrations.
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August 1, 2023Sss
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