As an adult, I feel like it's quite brilliant... an MA thesis in 6 pages. But it isn't for adults. And I felt like the different colored faces were confusing to E. ( )

So often, reading books to babies can be, well, pretty boring. The "BabyLit" series, on the other hand, offers something to the adults who are doing the reading, to help keep them entertained as well.

Emma, a story purportedly by “Little Miss Austen” is an emotions primer. In bright primary colors and simple words, we learn, for example, that Emma is excited, Miss Taylor is happy, Mr. Woodhouse is bored, Jane Fairfax is tired, and so on. Babies have no need to know who these characters are; they can identify the emotion with the picture and the color representing it (for example, the angry character is depicted in red, and the sad character in blue).

The artwork by Alison Oliver is bright and colorful, and the pictures are simply but clearly drawn.

Evaluation: The BabyLit series makes reading to babies much more fun than it might otherwise be! ( )