Cute story: a small boy reads Jane Austen

I sent the Cozy Classics Pride and Prejudice to my niece for her first birthday, but one person who is rather taken with it is my four-year-old nephew. He has his own funny version of the story, and he read bits of it to me on the phone the other day. He is also rather taken with pirates at the moment, and so he comes to the page where Lizzy is reading Darcy’s letter and makes up a scene where Lizzie is reading a “treasure map”.

I thought, well, that could be a nice metaphor really couldn’t it.

“I read your letters like a treasure map.”

Poetic.

(I've actually got the Cozy Classics Moby Dick for him for Christmas, just because it's cute and even though it's not about pirates it's got a ship and a whale, so I am looking forward to him "reading" that one.)