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“Things began to change in that little town. news spread of this remarkable girl who never ran out of yarn.”

This is a great story about sharing and getting joy from making others happy.

Caldecott Honor Award
Published 2012
This story has an important theme about sharing happiness with others around you, and feeling good about doing good in your community. The girl in the story, Annabelle, finds a box of yarn that never runs out and she knits things to make her community more beautiful. When her yarn is taken away, she is left to enjoy the work she has done and see everyone else enjoy it too.

“'No sweater for me, thanks,' said Mr. Crabtree. So she made Mr. Crabtree a hat.“

I would definitely use this book in my classroom to teach students about character and what it means to show kindness/generosity. I think this would be a great read in any of the elementary grades!

I loved reading this book! It had such a sweet, positive message and the colorful illustrations that build throughout the story show even more symbolism. Also the themes of kindness and community within the story were very heartwarming.

“Annabelle‘s sweaters made everyone smile, and that‘s how it all started.”

In this story Annabelle, discovers a magical box of never ending yarn. She shares the fruits of her discovery by knitting sweaters for everyone and more! I could use this book to prompt students to write about what they would do with a endless ball of yarn or even how they would design their sweater.

This book has beautiful illustrations and a great message about creativity and generosity, showing how a simple act of kindness can transform a whole community.

“The archduke hurled the box out of the window and shouted, ‘little girl, I curse you with my family‘s curse! You will never be happy again!”, but, it turned out she was”

This book would be great for teaching confidence and independence and does a great job at showing the importance being content with yourself.

This book was super cute and I enjoyed the lesson it taught. It is very easy to understand and flows really nicely.

Now I am 100% biased as a knitter myself but I loved this book. A little girl with and endless ball of yarn goes on an adventure knitting different things for the town. She turns down money from an archduke who wants the yarn so she can keep knitting. It‘s a very cute book with great illustrations done by Jon Klassen.

This book creates a very interesting image with the only source of color being the little girls never ending ball of yarn. Throughout the book the pages fill with color as she knots new things for the town. All of the buildings and people are white black or brown creating contrast with only shades of colors. The town comes to life with the colors of the yarn.

“Things began to change in that little town.”

Extra Yarn by Mac Barnett was published in 2012 and illustrated by Jon Klassen. This story won the E.B. White Read Aloud Award and is a fictional story. This story is about a girl who discovers a box of yarn filled with every color and knits herself and her dog a sweater.

“So Annabelle made sweaters for things that didn‘t even wear sweaters”

I think this book shows how a bit of kindness can go a long way. You could use this to talk about how money can‘t buy happiness, or produce the same effect. Some things can just be loved and shared.

Published in 2012. This book tells a story of a little girl who finds a box of yarn, and knits sweaters for the whole town. The yarn brings the community together, and even when offered money for it, Annabelle does not give it up. The bright colors of the yarn stick out against the black and white of the town. It shows how the yarn brings light and happiness against the stark, cold winter. The pages without color convey cold, and loneliness.

This page has black all around the man in the colorful hat. I think this page displays what the illustrator was trying to capture throughout the book.

This book was a good book that used color to tell a story. I was a little confused at the end so I had to read it again but I enjoyed reading it.

I love that Annabelle is not about making profit by helping people. All she wants to to give and not have anything in return. This shows a truly good person, to her soul!

I love how Annabelle just knew that the people who were making fun of her sweaters were not mean, they just were jealous and wanted one too. When they got them, they thought they were just fine. I feel like a-lot of hatred that comes from the world is from the projection of self hatred, and this book captures this perfectly!

This book is so enlightening to read, about how people get mad at you when you have something they want. And the generosity of Annabelle in wanting everyone to have some. The artwork is also simple and sweet, Annabelle is adding color into every page by knitting sweaters for everyone. Which i think is symbolic for being light and happiness to people with her generosity “extra yarn” to give when you have some to give.

This book was published in 2012. It has so much color and beautiful line drawings. It is about a little girl who receives yarn and it is a never ending stash of yarn. She makes things with the yarn for everyone around her and refuses to sell it. Overall, I thought this was a good and cute book!

“I won‘t sell the yarn”

So colorful and lots of “extra yarn”

“Things began to change in that little town”

Cute book about a child who loves to create things out of yarn to make others happy. She is always being herself and ignoring people who are mean. The illustrator focuses on value between light and dark through pictures. Everything in the book is dark except for everything the child makes with yarn. The child bring color and light to the town

“Leave it,” said Annabelle. “I won‘t sell the yarn.” And she didn‘t.

I liked how this book didn‘t even use words on some of the pages because the illustrations were that powerful in this story.

Picture book, published 2012. This story was very powerful with the use of words and illustrations. There are some pages that don‘t have any words on them but the illustrations tell their own story and move the plot along. I think a message behind this story would be that children should believe that they can do anything they set their mind to and nobody should take good things away from them.

Just the inspiration I needed. Lovely, soft and cozy, art and story. #picturebook

This RF book is a Caldecott Honors Winner. Extra Yarn is the story of Annabelle and the journey she takes after finding a box of yarn. The yarn wasn‘t just any other yarn either, this box of yarn was never ending. Read to follow the places Annabelle ends up. A S would be the perfect teaching strategy for this book. A great storytelling resource for teachers comes from scholastic.

“Things began to change in that little town.“

Really great illustrations how the bleak town was made colorful from her covering the town in yarn.

This Caldecott honor book “Extra Yarn“ published in 2012 is by Mac Barnett. I think this is a really beautifully done picture book with great pops of color incorporated with the yarn. It has a really nice message about being happy as well.

Review: Extra Yarn, by Mac Barnett, 2012. Caldecott Honor Book. This is a beautiful picture book about a magical box of yarn. It teaches the reader the value of objects and how some things are worth even more than money.
Blurb: The story would be really good for older toddlers or preschoolers and would be great to use in a lesson where they can make something of their own with yarn
Quote: “Things began to change in that little town.“

#FallIsBooked Day 10: This story is about a girl named Annabelle who found a box filled with yarn of every colour. This seemingly-magical box never.. and I mean never.. runs out of coloured yarn. When Annabelle finished knitting a sweater for herself, she had enough leftover for her dog Mars. More than anything, this book reminds me that what we find in things are those we already have within us. My full review: https://wp.me/pDlzr-htN

“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.“

Winner of the Caldecott Medal. It showed interesting illustrations of different arrays in color that portrayed the effect the yarn had. It was a light and joy for everyone in that town and without it, the town was dull and sad. Had a cute plot that showed all the things Annabelle could do with the yarn and her imagination!

Super cute book that I enjoyed the whole way through. My favorite part was when Annabelle decorated the truck with yarn and acted nonchalantly as the scary pirate approached her.