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Extra Yarn by Mac Barnett
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Extra Yarn (original 2012; edition 2012)

by Mac Barnett, Jon Klassen (Illustrator)

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With a supply of yarn that never runs out, Annabelle knits for everyone and everything in town until an evil archduke decides he wants the yarn for himself.
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Title:Extra Yarn
Authors:Mac Barnett
Other authors:Jon Klassen (Illustrator)
Info:Balzer Bray (2012), Edition: First Edition, Hardcover, 40 pages
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Extra Yarn by Mac Barnett (2012)

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A sweet little allegory about the power of kindness. The artwork is what makes this story shine.
  sloth852 | Mar 8, 2024 |
So charming. I love this beautiful, magical story where a little town is covered with the knitting of a little girl and her magically unending box of yarn. The art is a mixture of ink drawing and stamped sweater prints that are full of color and charm. It is a strange story, with no specific moral overtones, except the charm and wonder of a young woman content with what she has. ( )
  mslibrarynerd | Jan 13, 2024 |
Bah! The psychopathic killer bear from [b:I Want My Hat Back|11233988|I Want My Hat Back|Jon Klassen|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1327888784s/11233988.jpg|16160067] makes an appearance and terrifies me once again!

Otherwise, what a great book. One detail in the illustrations I really loved was how in some of the pictures the yarn literally connects the people wearing the sweaters. What a wonderful visual metaphor for how the little girl's art makes the community more of a community.

The ending was a little puzzling to me at first. Did the yarn really float back to the little girl? I suppose it did. ( )
  LibrarianDest | Jan 3, 2024 |
Annabelle finds a box of colorful yarn and knits sweaters for everyone in her snowy, sooty town. It brightens up everything and everyone so much, that she starts to knit “sweaters for things that didn’t even need sweaters,” for example: a pickup truck. But miraculously she never runs out of yarn, and when an evil Duke steals it from her, it just as miraculously comes back to her. ( )
  MaowangVater | Dec 18, 2022 |
Annabelle found a box of yarn and made many things out of the yarn. She became a distraction in class because everyone was talking about her sweater. She the knit a sweater for everyone and still did not run out of yarn. She then made yarn for everything people were impressed that her yarn would not run out. This book is a nice tale to tell the class because it follows the journey of Annabelle and her wondrous never-ending yarn. ( )
  Isabellabooks | Nov 27, 2022 |
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For Steven Malk
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On a cold afternoon, in a cold little town, where everywhere you looked was either the white of snow or the black of soot from chimneys, Annabelle found a box filled with yarn of every color.
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