🧶 Optimal Yarn Review

I love this book! I found one in the library while collecting books to work with underprivileged kids downtown. In this book, a girl finds a box of yarn. She discovers that the yarn is enough to cover and protect not only herself but everyone around her. No matter how much it shares, it never dries up. That will never be taken from her. I love using this book to teach children that when God's unconditional love is given to someone, there is always enough. The more we share it, the more we…

If you are a knitter, you should buy this book. I first saw it at a local yarn store. About a little girl who finds a box of yarn of all colors in the middle of winter and knits herself a sweater. When she finished she had some yarn left over so she knitted a sweater for her dog Mars. Annabelle ends up knitting sweaters for almost everyone in town, except for Mr. Crabtree, who just doesn't wear sweaters. Instead he got a hat. Word of Annabelle and her extra yarn spread, and the cocky Archduke…

This book is truly a masterpiece. My daughters love it and so do I, but probably for different reasons. They love the sweet, funny story of a girl who knits sweaters for everyone in her small town and ends up defeating a mean archduke with a long mustache. Good stuff. I also love this book because it has so many levels; it's easy for adults to appreciate yarn as a metaphor for luck. Klassen's powerful illustrations show us the dark, snowy landscape at the beginning of the book. Annabelle then…