Extra Yarn: A Caldecott Honor Award Winner
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From bestselling and award-winning author Mac Barnett and illustrator Jon Klassen comes Extra Yarn, a Caldecott Honor Book, Boston Globe-Horn Book Award winner, and a New York Times bestseller.
A young girl and her box of magical yarn transform a community in this stunning picture book. With spare, gently humorous illustrations and a palette that moves from black-and-white to a range of color, this modern fairy tale has the feel of a new classic.
Fans of Oliver Jeffers and Peter Brown will love this book.
Publisher : HarperCollins
Publication date : January 17, 2012
Edition : Illustrated
Language : English
Print length : 40 pages
ISBN-10 : 0061953385
ISBN-13 : 978-0061953385
Item Weight : 14.4 ounces
Reading age : 3 – 7 years, from customers
Dimensions : 8.6 x 10.2 x 0.6 inches
Grade level : Preschool – 3
Best Sellers Rank: #3,319 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #18 in Children’s Fiction on Social Situations #25 in Yarn #61 in Children’s Books on Emotions & Feelings (Books)
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13 reviews for Extra Yarn: A Caldecott Honor Award Winner
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Juli –
Wonderful Book!
This is a wonderful story! Beautiful illustrations, incredible story with a great message. Our 6-year-old loved figuring the story out by himself. The bad guy is pretty bad but makes the story interesting and the ending so satisfying. The colors tell their own story. Can’t say enough wonderful things about this book.
Danna G. Coffey –
Extra Yarn across the curriculum
Let me just say up front that I am a knitter with so much extra yarn I could furnish a small shop. I can’t resist pretty yarn and just the title of this book intrigued me, as a knitter and as a preschool teacher. Without ever even seeing the book in it’s entirety, I was already planning activities to use some of my yarn in the classroom along with this story. For example, drawing letters or numbers in glue and letting the children cut pieces of yarn to make the shape of the letter or number or making my own and letting the children do crayon rubbings, seriating pieces of yarn by length or sorting by texture or color, weaving yarn through fruit baskets, colanders, etc. Creating a large web by placing sticks in a pyramid and letting the children weave various yarns through and around them. Finger knitting. For science, a lesson about making yarn from a sheep’s wool. Using nursery rhymes such as Baa Baa Black Sheep. This list could go on and on. I did find another cute book to go along with this theme, Farmer Brown Shears His Sheep : a Yarn about Wool by Teri Sloat. Farmer Brown Shears His Sheep. So…my book finally arrived and it is better than I imagined. The drawings start in black and white representing a rather cold and dismal place and are then “knitted” into color. It is about a little girl who finds a box of yarn, knits herself a sweater,and then knits sweaters for everyone and everything in her community. It is a book about imagination, kindness and sharing, a little magic and intrigue, pretty much everything you want in a children’s book! You could now include some contemporary social studies by showing the children pictures of yarm bombing and discussing whether it is beautiful or vandalism. Yes, even 4 year olds have opinions about social issues. I have not yet had the opportunity to use this story with my preschoolers, but I am hoping my enthusiasm rubs off on them!
K. Huntermoon –
Excellent Feminist Waldorf Book
As a feminist Waldorf homeschooling mother, I love this book. Here is the rare combination of strong female character, gentle dreamy story-line, and KNITTING.Throughout the story, male characters tell Annabelle that 1. she looks ridiculous, 2. she is incapable of doing what she wants to do, and 3. that she will never be happy again. I love the light-hearted way Annabelle responds with utter confidence to these pronouncements. She never waivers from her own inner knowing. And all the time she keeps knitting.The feminism is light and easy to miss, as you might guess from other reviewers not even mentioning it. That’s a good thing. We don’t want to indoctrinate our children with heavy-handed messages; we want to raise them surrounded in goodness and love, with values dreamily and consistently communicated. This book is excellent for that.In response to those who think the ending is contrived and unsatisfying: It seems like a perfect ending to me. My seven-year-old says she loved the ending — in fact, she loved everything about this book. The message is that Annabelle cannot be stopped, regardless of the distresses of others and how they project them onto her. Not only does she have her inner knowing, but something bigger than her, something mysterious, is also looking out for her well-being. In our house we call that “the Goddess.” Most of you probably call it “God.” The book doesn’t call it anything; we just see the magic box mysteriously returning to Annabelle, full of yarn as always. I love it.
I.O. –
So sweet
Such a sweet book, very inspirational for children. In this world, it’s so easy to take but this book shows the beauty of giving to others and what happens when someone tries to take away your gift. The illustrations are beautiful and not over-stimulating. Very calm, nice book.
maecurran –
Clever, simply clever!!!!
This is such a clever story. I read it to 6 of my classes at school and everyone absolutely loved it. One class begged me to make them all sweaters as well as sweaters for their siblings. So very cute.
Ashley –
Adorable book!
As someone who enjoys knitting and crocheting, I was immediately intrigued by the title of this children’s book. So when I picked it up at the library and gave it a read, I knew I had to buy a copy for myself (and any further children I may have). The premise of this book is just so sweet and the illustrations are delightful and colorful once you get a few pages in (but the lack of color in the first couple of pages is part of the story).While I am confident that this book will appeal to many children, I definitely think the more creatively inclined kids will love it. I know I would have when I was a child.
Diana –
Delightful story!
Five stars for the book! It’s a delightful story! This book has beautiful illustrations and a heart-warming story that touches on kindness and standing your ground against nasty people in the world! Purchased as a gift for a first-time grandmother to read to her new granddaughter.One star off for Amazon packaging: I ordered a second book, same “cart” purchase, and it came in a separate box five times thicker than the book. Wasteful packaging! Amazon, Let’s do better!
lesliee –
One of my daughter’s favorite book!
I love story books like this. We usually go to library but my daughter wanted to keep this so we purchased it.
Retail Therapy Online –
Excellent story, quite different but appealing. The artwork was excellent too. Kept the Grandchildren’s attention and we all liked the ending.
ハバネロ –
とても愛らしくて、愛おしい絵本です。
Michèle E –
Belle histoire et belles illustations;en résumé album original, agréable à lire.
Shalini –
Lovely book with beautiful illustrations! My kids love it as part of their bedtime stories.
larousset1893 –
lovely book that could be used to teach children:1- that one can change ones world even if it is dreary, dull and seemingly hopeless;2- that greed is not good; and3- that good will win out.the illustrations show the contrast between the old grey world and the astounding change annabel brings to her fellow citizens by cladding the bleak land and its dwellers with her magical neverending wool. of course a grand duke comes along and demands to purchase the casket of wool, failing which he steals it. . . . etc etc . . . with a happy end.