Saturday, January 26, 2013

Daisy and Her Needles by Keith Balding


It's a rhyming couplets poem in a little book of watercolour and gouache paintings which give humour to Daisy the obsessive knitter who knits everything in her life, from a fire to a tree of apples. It's certainly a very woolly existence Even her husband is knitted! A normal flesh and blood husband would quickly become unravelled given her fanatic clicking of the needles.This is indeed a very obscure little book which will take its place on the Little Bookshelf of Little Books in my classroom, for all my students to appreciate or at the very least, wonder about.

1 comment:

  1. This book looks wonderful. I am fascinated to read your blog because I have never seen most of these books before. Discovering new illustrators and "new" vintage books is much fun.

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