How to Knit a Monster

by Annemarie Van Haeringen (Author)

How to Knit a Monster
Reading Level: 2nd − 3rd Grade

A delightfully quirky celebration of the power of creativity and the secret magic of knitting. Greta the goat is a wonderfully accomplished knitter. She can even knit little goats and turn them loose to play around her feet.

But when she gets distracted from her knitting, threatening creatures spring from her needles, each more menacing than the last. It takes quick thinking, courage, and brilliant knitting for Greta to find her way out of a perilous situation.

In this whimsical story, creativity and craft empower our heroine to restore her safety . . . as long as she pays attention to what is growing on her knitting needles!

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Kirkus

The story, told in the present tense, is well-paced and laced with onomatopoeia, and van Haeringen's India ink, watercolor, and colored pencil illustrations are lively and amusing.

None

Two popular picture-book subjects, knitting and monsters, get an unlikely, whimsical mashup in this delectable Dutch import.

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Annemarie Van Haeringen
Annemarie van Haeringen is an award-winning Dutch author and illustrator. How to Knit a Monster is her first book published in the United States.
Classification
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781328842107
Lexile Measure
500
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Clarion Books
Publication date
August 07, 2018
Series
-
BISAC categories
JUV002090 - Juvenile Fiction | Animals | Farm Animals
JUV051000 - Juvenile Fiction | Imagination & Play
JUV052000 - Juvenile Fiction | Monsters
Library of Congress categories
Knitting
Monsters
Sheep
Goats

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