Les Miserables (Cozy Classics)

Author(s): Jack Wang

Gifts & Humour

The world's best loved stories are made adorably cuddly in this new board book series from Simply Read. Created by Jack and Holman Wang, this series distils great works of literature into just 12 child-friendly words. Each word is accompanied by 12 stunning images of needle-felted characters. Les Miserables is Victor Hugo's sweeping French saga about one man's search for redemption in a world of hardship in misery. Now this famous classic can be shared with younger children. Cozy Classics is nothing short of a whole new genre in children's book illustration.


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"Enchanting... Jack and Holman Wang have done a service to literate families everywhere with their "Cozy Classics" The Wall Street Journal"--Meghan Cox Gurdon"The Wallstreet Journal" (11/16/2012)

Jack and Holman Wang are twin brothers who grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia. They first began writing and illustrating books together in the third grade.


Jack earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in creative writing from the University of Arizona and a Ph.D. in English with an emphasis in creative writing from Florida State University, where his major area was the history of the novel. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Writing at Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York, where he specializes in fiction writing.


Holman, an artist and former middle school teacher, holds a bachelor's degree in education and a master's degree in architecture history, both from the University of British Columbia. He is the author of "Bathroom Stuff," a nonfiction coffee table book on the history of everything in your bathroom, published by SourceBooks in 2001. His work has been featured in newspapers and on TV and radio, including NPR and the CBC.


Jack has three and one year-old daughters. Holman has a two year-old daughter and a six month-old son. They both love reading to their children, and they're both eager to pass on the classics.

General Fields

  • : 9781927018217
  • : Simply Read Books
  • : 0.218
  • : 01 February 2013
  • : 191mm X 141mm
  • : Canada
  • : 01 July 2013
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Jack Wang
  • : Board
  • : Jul-13
  • : 813.6
  • : 24
  • : Colour