To be completely honest, I probably would not have gone out and bought this book, but I think it will be really fun to sit down with my daughter, who is showing interest in sewing at 6 years old, and pick out some projects to do together. I like that the book is a combo of machine sewing, hand sewing, and no sewing crafts. They are some great toys, like puppets, a girl doll and a robot doll, play place settings, fruit and veggie softies, etc. There are clothes, little slippers, pencil pouches, and a beautiful map quilt. I love that she really encourages kids to personalize and decorate, using fabric markers on the projects and then embroidering or free hand quilting. There are templates included for projects where they are needed. They all fit on the page and inlcude percentages for sizing up appropriately. This is really my only criticism of the book, I'm not sure that my home printer/copier can do enlargements, so I'd probably have to take it to a copy shop or somewhere with a copier. I wish there were some way to give a unique code inside each book to download the files online or something. There is a simple, thorough introduction that makes this book accessible to beginning sewists. I'd recommend it for beginners as well as for sewists of any level with kids who want ideas for projects to work on together. You can read more info from the publisher here.
I received a copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for my honest review.
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