Saturday, September 3, 2011

Teen Knitting Club

Title: Teen Knitting Club
Authors: Jennifer Wenger, Carol Abrams, Maureen Lasher
ISBN: 9781579452449
Audience: Teens, People interest in Knitting

Summary
Teen Knitting Club is a nonfiction that leads teens and tweens into the world of knitting. It starts with giving a belief history of knitting, information with materials, stitches, and techniques, and frequent problems of knitting. It continues with showing detail steps on different knitting projects; scarves, hats, bags, ponchos, tank tops and shells, sweaters, short projects and blankets. At the end, it has tips on create teen knitting club, and how use knitting to connect with others, and it has short guides to create a scrapbook to keep track of the knitting progress. The sources pages are also provided is knitters want to do further investigation on knitting.

Review
The book is a delightful and colorful guide for teen who might and are interesting with knitting. The book uses teen model, which is can be very connective to teens and tweens. The illustrations is clearly drawn and illustrated that is very understandable. The little notes made by the authors is very encouraging and connecting with readers. The pattern learned from the book is pretty basic. This is drawback for those who want to learn cute and fancy patterns. This is a book for beginners. Advanced knitters might not be suitable for this book.

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