Cozy Classics: Moby Dick is reviewed in the Washington Post today. In the review, a cynical parent is surprised that our version of Moby Dick has become one of her child’s favorites–while the “sanitized” version by the competition doesn’t get a second glance. Read more →
Category: Odds & Ends
Shopping in Soho, London
Our eyes on the street tell us that when you go to the über-fashionable Soho district in London, this is what you see (at Gosh! Comics). Read more →
Leo reads the Cozy Classics version of Pride and Prejudice!
We love hearing from our fans, especially when they provide video evidence of kids enjoying our books. Here’s big-time cutie Leo, only 26 months old, narrating the Cozy version of Pride and Prejudice. Awwwwww. Thanks to @rachelrev from Edmonton for sharing! Read more →
Let it snow! Let it snow! Let it snow!
Jack was back in Vancouver over the holiday break from New York and he and Holman had a chance to work on their next book. Here’s Holman shooting in the snow up on Cypress Mountain. Hmmm, just what could this new title be? Read more →
Oops! Pride and Prejudice Printing Error
It has been recently brought to our attention by astute readers that there is a printing error on the back of a recent edition of Cozy Classics: Pride and Prejudice. As you can see from the picture below, the synopsis on the back of the book is actually the description for Emma. This error affects the third printing of Pride… Read more →
Cozy Classics on Fox News!
Cozy Classics made it to Fox News! Unfortunately, they use a quote from the competition, but use our images, so it’s all a bit muddled. Still, we never thought we’d see the day that our art would be fodder for talking heads on Fox! Check out the video here. Read more →
6 second classics
Burt’s Bees has started a new Vine campaign playing on the classics in 6 seconds. You can see the Vines below. What’s really cool is that when Chicago Now reported on the new Burt’s Bees campaign, it reminded them of Cozy Classics! It seems that we’re something of a cultural touchstone now on riffing on the classics! Read more →
Emma – Cozy Classics vs. TV & Film
With the upcoming release of Cozy Classics: Emma in a few weeks, we thought we’d contrast and compare the characters in our version with three beloved TV and film versions of Emma (clockwise from our version): the 1996 big-screen movie starring Gwyneth Paltrow, the 1996 TV movie starring Kate Beckinsale, and the 2009 TV mini-series starring Romola Garai. So which… Read more →
Dancing in Cozy Classics
Before the publication of Cozy Classics: Pride and Prejudice, some suggested that our image for “dance” wasn’t historically accurate. However, Lisa Brown of JASNA Rochester, an expert on English country dance, confirms that Jane and Bingley are doing a figure called “arming.” While dancers didn’t typically raise their arms, nothing would have prevented them, she says, from raising their arms… Read more →
AN OPEN LETTER TO GOODREADS
Dear Goodreads, We emailed you on June 4, 2013 and July 9, 2013 about what we think is a Goodreads spamming / hacking / bot issue. We have not had a response to our queries, let alone a resolution. We are writing you this open letter in hopes that we can receive the courtesy of a reply. Our concerns relate… Read more →