I love everything about this book. Everything.

Annabelle lives in a cold, colorless town where everything is covered with snow and soot. One day, she comes upon a box of colorful yarn, and knits herself a sweater. When she's finished, she knits one for her dog. When she's finished with that, she still has extra yarn. In fact, Annabelle's colorful yarn seems to be never-ending, and she knits and knits and knits until her town and all the people in it are adorned with Annabelle's colorful creations. Then one day, a rich and powerful archduke offers Annabelle one million, two million... ten million dollars for her box of yarn. When she declines his offer, he takes matters into his own hands and hires robbers to get the box for him. But once he's got it, things don't go quite as he'd hoped. What will he do? How will Annabelle fare without her box? You have to go get the book for yourself to discover the sweet ending.

Absolutely charming tale, fabulous illustrations by [a:Jon Klassen|3118934|Jon Klassen|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1320343513p2/3118934.jpg]... this book has the makings and the feel of a modern classic. The f&g will suffice in our house for now, but this is one we will absolutely be purchasing in hardcover for our collection. ( )

A sweet little allegory about the power of kindness. The artwork is what makes this story shine.

So charming. I love this beautiful, magical story where a little town is covered with the knitting of a little girl and her magically unending box of yarn. The art is a mixture of ink drawing and stamped sweater prints that are full of color and charm. It is a strange story, with no specific moral overtones, except the charm and wonder of a young woman content with what she has. ( )

Bah! The psychopathic killer bear from [b:I Want My Hat Back|11233988|I Want My Hat Back|Jon Klassen|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1327888784s/11233988.jpg|16160067] makes an appearance and terrifies me once again!

Otherwise, what a great book. One detail in the illustrations I really loved was how in some of the pictures the yarn literally connects the people wearing the sweaters. What a wonderful visual metaphor for how the little girl's art makes the community more of a community.

The ending was a little puzzling to me at first. Did the yarn really float back to the little girl? I suppose it did. ( )

Annabelle finds a box of colorful yarn and knits sweaters for everyone in her snowy, sooty town. It brightens up everything and everyone so much, that she starts to knit “sweaters for things that didn’t even need sweaters,” for example: a pickup truck. But miraculously she never runs out of yarn, and when an evil Duke steals it from her, it just as miraculously comes back to her. ( )