Displaying 1 of 1 Format: Kit Title: Beginner Crochet Kit Description: 1 double-ended wooden J crochet hook + 1 yarn needle + 1 skein Sugar 'n Cream yarn + blunt-tip scissors + Learn to Crochet Club: The Dishcloth (instruction book) Summary: Interested in learning how to crochet? Check out this beginner's kit and master the basic chain stitch and single crochet stitch. This kit comes with enough yarn to make one dishcloth. Series: Library of things Subjects: Crocheting. Crochet hooks. Crocheting--Equipment and supplies. Library of things. Other Title: Crochet kit Library of things Web Site: Click here for more information about our Library of Things! ISBN: 4423 System Availability: 1 # Local items: 1 Call Number: LOT Crochet # Local items in: 1 # System items in: 1 Current Holds: 0 Place Request Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Where is it? Suggestions and more Trade Reviews Publishers Weekly ReviewIn this ruminative collection, Gopnik offers five essays on winter-exploring it as season and idea, elemental force and cultural influence. The New Yorker staff writer and author of Paris to the Moon composed these pieces for the 50th anniversary of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's Massey Lectures. He acknowledges that "chapters are meant to sound vocal" and rough edges have been left in place. Readers will find pleasures of the serendipitous variety, including introductions to Wilson "Snowflake" Bentley, the underground architect Vincent Ponte, and the engineers who helped developed central heating. Gopnik's round-the-world tour of "romantic winter" covers more than 200 years in art, music, poetry, literature, and theology. In "Radical Winter," he describes the absurd courage of the men who raced for glory at the North and South Poles; in "Recreational Winter," he untangles the motley origins of ice hockey. Though the prose moves slowly at times, Gopnik leavens dense material with humor, and makes unwieldy concepts accessible through modern-day comparisons (consider Dickens the Francis Ford Coppola of his day). In the end, the lectures serve as Gopnik's equivalent to a Playmate's "turn-ons and turn-offs." That being the case, we'd call him a worthy Mr. December. (Sept.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved. Librarian's View Series Information Similar Titles Similar Series Summary Reader Reviews Displaying 1 of 1
