Publisher and Year: HarperCollins, 2012.Khai: I like how she filled the whole city with yarn. He wears shorts with snow up to his knees and never wears sweaters. It would melt!Ĭarmen: I can’t believe that this little girl Annabelle knitted a sweater and house, tree, sweaters for everyone except Mr. That was so funny! She couldn’t make it for ice cream though. She was sewing sweaters for everything in the town. That pirate guy ( the Archduke) said, “You’re never going to be happy again.” But that actually didn’t happen. Isa: This book was so good I have to write about it. But when it got back to Annabelle, it still had more. Truman:I like the part when the Archduke didn’t get any yarn. In the end, the box of yarn ends up where it is supposed to be and.

He was furious! He cursed Annabelle! “Little girl, I curse you with my family’s curse! You will never be happy again!” Students leaped up, caught in the excitement and quoted him! But we weren’t worried. When he opened the box on the other side of the ocean, it was empty. He sent in three robbers to steal the box of yarn and bring it to him. “Oh! Oh! She’s making a mistake! What if her family is poor? She should take the money and run!”īut the archduke had his ways. When an archduke from far across the sea sailed to Annabelle’s shore and offered Annabelle millions for her box of yarn, she politely but assertively refused. “I think she’s getting a little carried away!” “Oh my gosh! Even a bear? Even a house? That’s a lot of yarn!” And sweaters for things that might seem to not need sweters. The yarn supply did not diminish and neither did Annabelle’s creativity. “Oh my gosh they kind of do look ridiculous. The pictures began to illicit many comments. When she had knit a sweater for everyone, there was still extra yarn. ? But Annabelle had turned her attention to her classmates and teacher. “ They sure look warm to me!” Somebody else sugested Nate would look good if Annabelle knit him skinny pants. so Annabelle begins to outfit her whole town, even the naysayers (like Nate who turned out to be jealous until he possessed a knitted sweater of his own). Soon she has knit herself and her dog Mars cozy sweaters perfect for brisk walks outside. When Annabelle finds a box filled with multi-coloured yarn, she is quite inspired.

Cold invades and everything is black with soot or white with snow. This story is set in a dreary little town. That other book, whatever it was (and it might have been wonderful) didn’t stand a chance. Our BLG reader Bill walked in with two books today and gave me a look that asked, “ Which one?” I had already spotted Extra Yarn written by Mac Barnett and illustrated by Jon Klassen in his hand.

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