A little too Cozy for me
Somebody’s been making a ton of money off Cozy Classics, which are board picture books for toddlers. They feature a single word per each of twelve pages and are meant mostly to amuse their parents, I would guess:
Read the remarkable children’s board book from Cozy Classics in which Brothers Jack Wang and Holman Wang use needle felted figures to tell Moby-Dick in 12 words. Sailor. Boat. Captain. Leg. Mad. Sail. Find. Whale. Chase. Smash. Sink. Float.
The “cozy” Moby Dick is quite an extraordinary concept. What’s next, The Cozy Brothers Karamazov? The Cozy Death in Venice? The Cozy Also Sprach Zarathustra? If you do some research on Amazon, you’ll find that the Cozy folks have already wrestled with the reductio ad absurdum of the Cozy War and Peace, Pride and Prejudice, Les Miserables, Oliver Twist, Jane Eyre, Emma, and Tom Sawyer.
Some of those are more Cozy than others.
and look to ty as to their future…
fads dont stick..
The BurkeanBaby would have hated these books. He didn’t even like Goodnight Moon, which someone bought for him, I never would. He wanted complete sentences in his stories, even when he was pre-verbal.
This was his favorite board book, I read it to him so many times I still have it memorized (BurkeanBaby is 17 days from his 15th birthday.)
http://www.amazon.com/Machines-at-Work-Board-Book/dp/069401107X/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1407620608&sr=1-3&keywords=men+at+work
Just wait for Cozy Animal Farm… That one’s definitely more cozy than others.
Here’s a palate-cleanser for y’all. Trey Gowdy takes on a Harvard Law professor, mops up the floor with him, and flings him out the window:
http://preview.tinyurl.com/q3rj7xo
God, I love this guy. Enjoy!
From a literary perspective, an abomination.
But that whale is awfully cute.
Cozy perfectly captures the common misunderstanding of MD, a magnificent poem not about Ahab or MD, but about a delightful, depressed school teacher contemplating his manhood.
Finnegan’s Wake? Ulysses (Joyce)? Catch 22?