A Midsummer Night's Dream: A BabyLit® Fairies Primer (BabyLit Classics) Board book – Picture Book, March 1, 2016

First off, Shakespeare isn't for everyone, I've learned this well.However... This fairy primer book makes my heart happy! Apparently makes my little baby happy as well (nothing like that new innocent smile). So happy to share some Shakespearean goodness with my little one!Love that this fairy primer book doesn't just have "fairy cuteness", but has a little Shakespeare poetry in it. It has actual exerpts from the original play.It's also not a super muted down book, like the other in this collection, which teaches little ones to count pictures of story elements. Is this educational? Depends on your view of that. It does teach a unique, old/ forgotten, poetic language that not everyone can easily read.Images are childlike, and only displays fairy characters, with a bit of added "greenery".Feels like a book made to give babe's a taste of the classic ye old fae realm.Read some negative reviews on this, and just have to say.. This is for young children, and this is real Shakespeare.Kids can be more smart and clever than they usually let on.If you are able, read this with zest, and then watch little ones eyes light up like they are consuming words that taste like sprinkles & icecream!If you can't read Shakespeare/ aren't into it, don't expect to entice your child with how you read it to them. You honestly need to be sort of ready to read this, to appreciate this. From my perspective, this has a level all its own.Recommend getting the Anne of Green Gables one like these as well too, if your child enjoys big, lovely words.(Romeo and Juliet in imho, is overrated/ is over used/ is like "oldschool" Twilight=is Not the best message. Will even makes fun of his own R&J story in the original MSND with Pirimus and Thisby-Not in this book version). Shakespeare has so much more to offer the world, and MSND is some of his hearty and silly stuff!! :D (Even though most tend to highlight his tragedies).

What a beautiful book! My baby girl can't help but stare at the pictures, and neither can my 4 boys. I love each of the fairies pictured from A Midsummer Night's Dream. I really like that actual Shakespeare quotes, from the play, are used on each page. My boys were super excited, because we have been memorizing a section from the actual play, this week and part of Oberon's speech, that they know, about Titania is in this book.It's quite enjoyable for us to have the cute, memorable Illustrations of the main character's to aid in our understanding of the story as we learn and study Shakespeare in our home school. What an amazing, well thought out baby book, that the whole family can enjoy!

My daughter and her hubby have accumulated quite the collection of baby books for their little one in the science realm. Baby's First Book of Physics; Evolution for Babies, etc. but nothing that I have seen in the literature department, so I thought I'd get this book for my two year old grandson.It's adorable! The book highlights the various fairies, from Puck to Peaseblossom, using passages from the original. I can hardly wait to take it to him, and sit down to read it with him!

A sweet book and a nice easy intro to Shakespeare.

Quality, sturdy, beautiful graphics! What better story for baby than sleep, dreams and fairies!

Eleanor absolutely hated it. I thought it was pretty okay, but could have been better written. Super cute art though :D

I thank God for this board book. It sparked a real love of Shakespeare in an infant in my care. Hearing the language spoken out-loud for the first time lit the baby up like a Christmas tree when he was about 8 months old. He is 16 months old now and is so connected to Shakespeare it is amazing. The book itself is fine but it is more the fact that a board book of “A Midsummer Nights Dream” exists for infants/toddlers. I wish there were more Shakespeare board books for the youngest listeners.

The entire Baby Lit series is great. We have many of the books. This is a really fun way to introduce Shakespeare. Even though the Shakespearean language is complex, my toddler still enjoys it. Fun illustrations.