Kids Knit!: Simple Steps to Nifty Projects
by Sarah Bradberry
This nonfiction books has lots of information that will help get you started on learning to knit. The book starts with a little explanation of what knitting is, and the author gives some suggestions of where to find help if you are having trouble getting started. You need three tools to start knitting: yarn, a pair of knitting needles, and a pair of scissors to cut the yarn. There is a list of more tools that will be needed when you start on some of the projects listed in the book. Next, there is a little lesson on how to get started knitting. When you have mastered your first little square of knitting, you can put it away and start one of the twenty projects in this book. Some of the projects include a glasses case, ribbed scarf, cat toy, doll, doll blanket, little pillowcase, kite bookmark, backpack, and much more. These projects should be small and simple, but at the end, you will have something to show off that you made yourself. Happy knitting!
Kids Knitting: Projects for Kids of All Ages
by Melanie Falick with photographs by Chris Hartlove and illustrations by Kristin Nicholas
This nonfiction book discusses getting started with knitting and has twelve knitting project ideas and instructions. This book, though, also has instructions on how to create your own knitting needles and how to dye yarn with Kool-Aid. There is also a discussion on how yarn is made and what animals and plants it comes from. The author begins by discussing the tools needed and where to go for help if you have trouble getting started. This book also discusses knitting by hand and spool knitting. The projects in this book include basic bean bags, scarves, hats, afghans, dolls, puppets, and much more. Between the two of these nonfiction books by Sarah Bradberry and Melanie Falick, you should have a good idea of how to get started with your knitting. Good luck!
Knitting Nell
by Julie Jersild Roth
A little girl named Nell likes to knit and knit and knit. Nell was told by a boy at school that she had a weird voice, and so Nell does not talk a lot. Nell likes to listen, though. She listens to the trees at the park and all of her friends that stop by to chat. While listening Nell knits things for other people. Nell knits a blanket for her aunt’s baby; sock, hats, and mittens for the Children’s Home and for refugees in countries far away. Nell also knits things for her family to wear, and she even makes a beautiful sweater for herself. Nell likes it so much, that she decides to enter it in the contest at the county fair. Nell and her friends have a lot of fun at the County Fair. Will her sweater win a prize at the champion’s ceremony where all of Nell’s friends can see? What will her friends think of her if she does win? Will Nell win any other unexpected prizes at the fair? Will any of them want to start a new hobby like Nell’s?
Noodle’s Knitting
by Sheryl Webster and illustrated by Caroline Pedler
Noodle likes to watch the farmer’s wife do her knitting, and she listens to how she “knits one, purls two, and knits two together.” Then one day the farmer’s wife says that a ball of yarn is the wrong color, and Noodle takes the ball of yarn with her back to home. Noodle stops on the way to show the yarn to Hedgie, and Hedgie (the hedgehog) gives her two of his prickles as knitting needles. Noodle starts to knit as she is traveling home, and while she is not paying attention, she also falls into the little stream. Her friend, Bulgy (the frog) saves her and her yarn from getting wet. Noodle also does not notice how long her knitting has gotten, and when the knitting gets caught on a prickle, Noodle is thrown up into the air. Luckily, her friend, Rosie (the squirrel) is there to catch her in her little wheelbarrow. Noodle tries to finish knitting the whole ball of yarn, and she ends up staying up all night long. What do you think will happen when Noodle tries to get out of her little houses, which is full of knitted yarn? Will her friends be able to help her? What will they end up using all of the knitted yarn for? All of the yarn in the book is “soft-to-touch.”
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