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1st out of 93 books
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205 voters
Extra Yarn
This looks like an ordinary box full of ordinary yarn.
But it turns out it isn't.
But it turns out it isn't.
Hardcover, 40 pages
Published
January 17th 2012
by Balzer + Bray
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Extra Yarn by Mac Barnett is illustrated by Jon Klassen, the author of I Want My Hat Back and This is Not My Hat (review coming). For fans of Klassen's books, there's a cameo tucked inside.
Annabelle finds a box of yarn. It's the most colorful thing in her dreary village — a place that reminds me of the painting Jagers in de Sneeuw (1565) by Pieter Bruegel. Just imagine that snowy landscape filled with Klassen's characters, being slowly but surely covered in knitted sweaters and blankets and what...more
Annabelle finds a box of yarn. It's the most colorful thing in her dreary village — a place that reminds me of the painting Jagers in de Sneeuw (1565) by Pieter Bruegel. Just imagine that snowy landscape filled with Klassen's characters, being slowly but surely covered in knitted sweaters and blankets and what...more
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This is an unusual, but magical story about a little girl who brings a bit of color and warmth to her world. Everywhere the little girl went, she met with scorn and adversity, but she unwaveringly persisted, always with a contented smile. Our girls loved that they recognized Jon Klassen's illustrations by the image of the bear from I Want My Hat Back, and yes there was even a bunny rabbit. Overall, this is a simple, but charming story and we really enjoyed reading it together.
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I love everything about this book. Everything.
Annabelle lives in a cold, colorless town where everything is covered with snow and soot. One day, she comes upon a box of colorful yarn, and knits herself a sweater. When she's finished, she knits one for her dog. When she's finished with that, she still has extra yarn. In fact, Annabelle's colorful yarn seems to be never-ending, and she knits and knits and knits until her town and all the people in it are adorned with Annabelle's colorful creation...more
Annabelle lives in a cold, colorless town where everything is covered with snow and soot. One day, she comes upon a box of colorful yarn, and knits herself a sweater. When she's finished, she knits one for her dog. When she's finished with that, she still has extra yarn. In fact, Annabelle's colorful yarn seems to be never-ending, and she knits and knits and knits until her town and all the people in it are adorned with Annabelle's colorful creation...more
I love this book! I swear this book was written for me. From the story to the illustrations, everything about this book beautiful. What an adorable, heart warming story. Young Annabelle finds a small wooden box and in that box is some magic yarn. Annabelle is able to not just knit a sweeter for herself and her pet, but the entire town, it's houses, and even for the woodland animals. Annabelle's actions don't go missed. She not only brings color to her town, she does something for everyone who li...more
"Extra Yarn," by Mac Barnett, and illustrated by popular artist Jon Klassen, is a wonderful story about a young girl and her piece of yarn. In her run down, poor village in the middle of winter, a young girl finds a very colorful string of yarn. She decides to make herself a sweater. She realizes after making her sweater that the yarn keeps coming and coming and coming. She thinks nothing of it, and doesn't know why, but knows that its obviously a magical piece of yarn. She begins making sweater...more
When you first glance at the cover of this book, you see the big words "EXTRA YARN" in a wide array of bond, pretty colors with a little girl sitting up against one of them, beautifully illustrated. When i saw this, knew i needed to read this picture book.
"Extra Yarn" by Mac Barnett and Illustrated by Jon Klassen is a wonderfully illustrated book, and also a very good story that is about a little girl named Annabelle who lives in a snowy town where there is no color. She finds a box full of col...more
"Extra Yarn" by Mac Barnett and Illustrated by Jon Klassen is a wonderfully illustrated book, and also a very good story that is about a little girl named Annabelle who lives in a snowy town where there is no color. She finds a box full of col...more
One cold day Annabelle finds a box fulled of yarn; lots of different colored yarn. She knit herself a sweater and still had yarn left over. So she knit her dog, Mars, a sweater, too. She still had more yearn. So she began knitting sweaters and hats for all of the townspeople. When she ran out of people and animals to knit for and still had yarn left over, she began to knit outfits for the inanimate objects, such as houses and cars.
When a greedy archduke shows up and demands that Annabelle sell h...more
When a greedy archduke shows up and demands that Annabelle sell h...more
Summary: One day while playing outside, Annabelle found a box of yarn. Annabelle knit herself and her dog a sweater to use up the beautifully colored yarn. But when she was done, there was still extra yarn left! She made sweaters for her friends, her teacher, and even the doctor! She still had so much yarn left that Annabelle began making sweaters for houses and mailboxes. An archduke from far away heard about the endless box of yarn and sailed to see Annabelle. He offered her alot of money for...more
I decided to read to this book first because the cover was really interesting and second because the title alone "extra yarn" provided a sense of a good book with a good moral.
This book for the most part lived up to the expectations I set for it. However, this book first struck me as unusual after the first couple of pages, because of the primitive and chromatic illustrations. After reading it through a couple of times it grew on me.
The colors in the book come from Annabelle's magical unending...more
This book for the most part lived up to the expectations I set for it. However, this book first struck me as unusual after the first couple of pages, because of the primitive and chromatic illustrations. After reading it through a couple of times it grew on me.
The colors in the book come from Annabelle's magical unending...more
Extra Yarn is an incredible story with great illustrations, and I believe it could contend for the Caldecott Award. Annabelle, the main character, begins to change her little town one piece of string at a time when she finds a box of magical, colorful yarn. She begins to knit things for everything, from people to trees, and changes her dreary black and white town into a vibrant town. The Archduke then comes along and offers Annabelle a fortune for the magical box of yarn, and eventually steals i...more
I believe that Extra Yarn by Mac Barnett and illustrated by Jon Klassen deserves to win the 2013 Caldecott medal. This is a heartfelt book about the happiness a little girl can bring to a dark world. Annabelle finds a box of yarn that seems to be never-ending. She uses the box of yarn to knit sweaters for everyone and everything in her dreary town. This magical box of yarn brings light to this little girl, her dog, and the world around her. The illustrations do a great job of moving the story al...more
Extra Yarn by Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen is a wonderful, unusual, magical and straight forward book about a little girl named Annabella. Annabella`s character is joyful and heroic in her journey. Annabella lives in a town "where everywhere you looked was either white of snow or the black of soot from chimneys", this town does not stay dull. When she finds a box that includes yarn with mystical properties, Annabella begins to bring color to her dull world by knitting things for herself, her dog...more
I'll have to go back and reread to see if it has storytime potential. I read it pretty quickly while filling holds (mostly holds from other librarians interested for the same reason I was interested!) It did take my fancy. Again I need to sit down and read both again, slowly, but I liked Extra Yarn better than This is not my Hat both winners by Klassen. I think because variation on the thief comes to a bad end have happened before but I'm having trouble thinking of another picture book with yarn...more
Though I was underwhelmed by his art in House Held up By Trees, John Klassen's art in another book, Extra Yarn, goes far beyond the level of simple "existence". Instead, of merely reflecting the reality that we know, the drawings shine and help the story telling (courtesy of Mac Bennett) to surge forward.
The setting's drab color-scape slowly vanishes as the protagonist--precocious young Annabelle--knits and knits and knits her way across the town. Covering humans, animals and the odd truck in, c...more
The setting's drab color-scape slowly vanishes as the protagonist--precocious young Annabelle--knits and knits and knits her way across the town. Covering humans, animals and the odd truck in, c...more
I really enjoyed this book, it was something different and fun to read. The story was interesting, unique, and magical, with its boring colorless world that gets turned into a brighter wonderful place. The book will take a child into a world literally covered in colorful yarn sweaters. Picture buildings and street lights covered in a warm yarn sweater, children will certainly find this story amusing as they get to see the text come to life in the illustrations. The yarn sweaters are made by a li...more
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Mac Barnett is one of the funniest children's book authors that I've had the pleasure of reading. In fact, Billy Twitters and His Blue Whale Problem and Oh No! Or How My Science Project Destroyed the World are two of my favorite picture books, comedy or otherwise. However, as you can probably tell from the soft-spoken cover, Extra Yarn is not another laugh-out-loud story. Instead, Barnett and Klassen have crafted a beautif...more
Mac Barnett is one of the funniest children's book authors that I've had the pleasure of reading. In fact, Billy Twitters and His Blue Whale Problem and Oh No! Or How My Science Project Destroyed the World are two of my favorite picture books, comedy or otherwise. However, as you can probably tell from the soft-spoken cover, Extra Yarn is not another laugh-out-loud story. Instead, Barnett and Klassen have crafted a beautif...more
It was a colorless wintry world “where everywhere you looked was either the white of snow or the black of soot from chimneys,” before a resourceful young girl Annabelle finds a box of yarn and begins to knit. She knits a colorful sweater for herself, then her dog, then her family members, community members, animals, and community objects and before long the wintry world is awash with color. One day an evil Archduke arrives upon the shore to purchase this box and Annabelle refuses to sell, but wi...more
Annabelle finds a box of yarn that seems to never end, no matter how much stuff she knits, and she knits a lot of stuff. She practically covers her entire town in her homemade goods...even the trucks! The news of this magical box of yarn spreads and the Archduke comes to town to purchase it from Annabelle only to find that she is not selling, no matter what the price. I think that this is a great story about generosity and the goodness of heart. It could be used for all age groups, but I think i...more
Extra Yarn is a gorgeous book depicting the importance of selflessness and generosity. Annabelle only wishes to knit sweaters for the people and objects in her town. Because of her selflessness and constant desire to give, the box with containing her yarn never runs empty. When a selfish archduke wishes to buy the yarn from Annabelle, no amount of money tempts her. Because the yarn is worth more than any monetary exchange, Annabelle keeps the box so that she can continue to give to those around...more
From beginning to end, I absolutely loved this book. The story is so interesting that it captured my attention right away and had me yearning to know what was going to happen next. This is a book that I think children would absolutely love because it is unique and fun. When Annabelle finds a box with never ending yarn placed in, she starts coloring up the boring black and white town with all of this multi-colored yarn. She makes sweaters for herself, her dog, friends, family, and teachers. Kids...more
Extra Yarn by Mac Barnett and illustrated by Jon Klassen is a wonderful story about a girl, Annabelle, who comes across a box of yarn. It is snowing wear Annabelle lives and she decides to knit a sweater for herself and her dog, Max. Throughout the story she stumbles on people in town and eventually becomes famous for making sweaters. People from all over come to meet Annabelle and see her box of yarn that never runs out. I don't want to ruin the ending but a powerful person travels far to find...more
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CLN - Caldecott possibility #2!
When I read "Extra Yarn," I had no idea that it was illustrated by the same illustrator who did "A House Held Up by Trees." As I read the first page, I thought, "Hmmm...These illustrations are so similar to 'A House Held Up by Trees...'" They are sparse, cold, somewhat sad, and mostly colorless at the beginning. In both of these picture books, Klassen's illustrations definitely set the tone for the book. I am reading this book for the Children's Literature Network...more
When I read "Extra Yarn," I had no idea that it was illustrated by the same illustrator who did "A House Held Up by Trees." As I read the first page, I thought, "Hmmm...These illustrations are so similar to 'A House Held Up by Trees...'" They are sparse, cold, somewhat sad, and mostly colorless at the beginning. In both of these picture books, Klassen's illustrations definitely set the tone for the book. I am reading this book for the Children's Literature Network...more
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Annabelle lives in a town that has been reduced to black soot and white snow. One day she finds a small black box filled with yarn of every color. She knits herself a sweater and one for her dog, too, but there’s still extra yarn. So she begins to knit colorful sweaters for everyone in town. And when she finishes, she still has extra yarn. So she makes sweaters for things that don’t usually wear sweaters, like trees and houses, mailboxes and cars. The colorless little town becomes a riot of colo...more
Extra Yarn by Mac Barnett, illustrated by Jon Klassen, tells the tale of Annabelle who, with a supply of yarn that never runs out, knits for everyone and everything in town until an evil archduke decides he wants the yarn for himself.
Klassen's illustrations are varied and appealing. I really liked the way the gloomy town is transformed by yarn and generosity into a warm appealing place. My favorite images included Nate's sweater, the class & teacher with sweaters, dogs & animals with swe...more
Klassen's illustrations are varied and appealing. I really liked the way the gloomy town is transformed by yarn and generosity into a warm appealing place. My favorite images included Nate's sweater, the class & teacher with sweaters, dogs & animals with swe...more
Imagine the positive influence one person can have over a place if their intentions are pure. How much good can one person do when they seek to make the place they live in better and when they seek to do so one person at a time. This is exactly what Annabelle sets out to do when she finds what seems to be an ordinary box filled with ordinary yarn. Once Annabelle knits herself a sweater she finds there is extra yarn, she then knits Mars, her dog, a sweater, and from here the story takes off. Anna...more
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I absolutely loved this book. I loved the story, the illustrations, and the magic of the book. I think this could win the Caldecott Medal. The story is about a little girl who finds happiness with her box of never ending yarn. I love how she gives to people, even those who are mean to her and makes them a sweater. This sends a great message to children about how they should treat others, and share. I love how most of the book is set in black, grey, and white colors, because it is set in a cold p...more
I've never knitted anything in my life. Not a thing. The extent of my self-crafted wardrobe is limited to ironing letters on a t-shirt, which I promptly threw on stage at a concert (don't worry, I had another shirt underneath). But I would imagine there's a lot of satisfaction in creating an item of clothing out of nothing and a ball of yarn. Of fabricating something, however minor. This concept of making an impact on the world, one small piece at a time is at the core of Extra Yarn. Full of bea...more
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Born to non-farmers in a California farming community, Mac now lives near San Francisco. He's on the board of directors of 826LA, a nonprofit writing center for students in Los Angeles, and he founded the Echo Park Time Travel Mart, a convenience store for time travelers.
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