Sense & Sensibility

A board book primer that introduces the Dashwood sisters through an opposites lesson — calm and anxious, big house and small cottage, cloudy and sunny. Jennifer Adams adapts Austen's novel into a concept book for toddlers, pairing original story moments with Alison Oliver's watercolor illustrations. Each spread contrasts a word pair through characters and scenes from Sense and Sensibility, so your one-year-old learns "rich" and "poor" while you name Elinor and Marianne. It's the BabyLit approach: classic literature as a scaffold for early learning, designed for the lap-reading years when repetition is the point. For the Jane Austen completist raising the next generation, or the friend who wants to give a board book with more narrative heft than the usual first-word fare.

Hand-wrapped in our signature tissue paper and leaves the studio within two to three days. A complimentary hand-written card on request. Returnable within thirty days for store credit.