I really like this book. It is full of great color charts and photos for adorable hats, mittens and scarves for kids. It isn't for beginning knitters though as there are many 3 and 4 color rows and some really long floats. The author gets around this by lining her stuff but still I'd wonder about the tension. (The tension of the photographed garments is great.) The hats and mittens are knit in the round but for the scarves she suggests if you need a particular color and it is on the opposite side of the row to just make a long float. Yikes. Still I love the colors and charted designs and there are some neat charted children's poems. Just don't give it to someone who is inexperienced at colorwork or they'll go completely nuts.