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A perfect ending for giving your baby ten kisses when you’re tucking her into bed! With Pride and Prejudice, one of our sales reps said that we should say “two men” not “two rich gentlemen” because gentlemen is a multisyllabic word and not appropriate for babies.

We ended our book with “parting is such sweet sorrow” and ten little bird “couples” kissing each other goodnight. We’ve had complaints that you can’t possibly have Romeo and Juliet as a baby book, because it is so serious and ends badly. People have had strong opinions about this book and the BabyLit series, both adamantly for and against it. It looks deceptively simple when you see the finished book, but creating it is actually quite a complex project. It is a lot more difficult than one might think to take the beloved novel and condense it into a mere twenty words! You’ve got to get the tone and flavor of the book, capture its essence, but also make it for babies and toddlers, which is a completely different audience of course. I wrote many different versions of the manuscript before we settled on making this a counting primer. She knows I love the classics, and Jane Austen in particular, and the idea for Little Miss Austen just struck her, she says, “like lightning.” Suzanne and I are both in the book industry and always looking for new, clever ideas. We were talking about mash-ups and different books and the funky things people do with the classics. The idea for doing a baby book on the classics came one day when I was talking to my editor, Suzanne Taylor, creative director for Gibbs Smith, Publisher. Thanks for asking me to blog about my new book, Pride & Prejudice: A BabyLit Board Book. Please join us today in welcoming author Jennifer Adams for the official launch of her book blog tour of Pride & Prejudice: A BabyLit Board Book (Little Miss Austen), a new children’s board book inspired by Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice that is releasing today by Gibbs Smith Publisher.