Wartburg Reviews

My Mom got this for me and it was so good that I stayed up 1:00in the morning reading it. I'm 11 years old and this book was greatbeacause you knew the main character so well.

I am a teenager who learned to knit about 4 years ago. I still enjoy this book - it has a variety of projects, ranging from easy(knit bookmark, stuffed ball, etc.) to the harder projects such as baby bootees, slippers, shawls, and sweaters. I also enjoy it because, unlike most knitting resources, it avoids excessive abbreviations (p 17, k 29, yo, etc.) and explains each project, along with the skills needed to complete it, clearly and concisely.

I, too, am very upset that it is out of print - I was lucky to find a copy at our library's used book sale.

I've gotten this from the library a number of times. It is a well explained and sophisticated knitting book for children. It has great projects, which build upon each other in difficulty, including socks with heels and raglan sweaters, but also pom-poms and doll beds. I'm sorry it is out of print also.

I read this book when I was a child and had just learned to knit; the projects in it were easy enough for me to do but still interesting. Now that I'm an adult with long years of knitting experience, I'd still recommend it for new knitters of any age. It's a shame that it's out of print....

The ducks on the cover might lead one to assume that this is a young person's guide, but this assumption is far from the truth. It takes the reader skillfully and deftly through the problems - if only Monsanto had read this before they attempted to bulldoze their product on the world, they would have been far better prepared to get the informed acceptance of their public, instead of the flat denial that eventually came. Well-researched and replete with footnotes, this is evidently a work of scholarship to rely on. As with any jointly-written book, there is a dichotomy in style. Liew's deft and sure prose contrasts pitilessly with von Wartburg's lourd Germanic hammerings - not to the point of making it unreadable, but certainly to making these passages difficult on the ear. The firm smack of editing might well have helped, but this advice comes too late for the publisher, and its lack gives this admirable book its four stars, rather than the five it merits.