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Title: Cat's Cradle: A Book of String Figures (Book and String) by Anne Akers Johnson ISBN: 1878257536 Publisher: Klutz, Inc Pub. Date: March, 1993 Format: Spiral-bound Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.82
Rating: 4
Summary: basic, good illustration on how to
Comment: This is a good book for young children, it is clearly illustrated. The hardest message to convey in string games is the "how to", this book does this welll. The binding allow the book to stay open while you are trying the technique described, unfortunately the figure shoe one move per page and the pages need to be turned... hopefully by another person. The figures are very basic and easy.
Rating: 4
Summary: Fun and good explanations--perfect even for young kids
Comment: We bought this on vacation for my five year old daughter, and it turned out to be the perfect gift. The pictures are clear--not just diagrams with arrows, but pictures of the hands, showing every little step. The string is included--an important point, since they fuse the ends of the string rather than tying them, making it much easier for little hands. Jesse was better at learning by doing than reading the diagrams, but she was able to use them to figure out what she was doing wrong once she had it more or less right.
The book contains five string patterns: Cup and Saucer, Eiffel Tower, Witch's Broom, Cat's Cradle, and Jacob's Ladder; though in fact Cup and Saucer is a stage on the way to Eiffel Tower. We found that Jesse could do Cup and Saucer and Witch's Broom just fine, though Eiffel Tower was a little trickier. Cat's Cradle was doable with some coaching--made a bit harder by the fact that it's a two person figure. Jacob's Ladder, however, is much more complicated, and will take an adult quite a few minutes to master.
Most of us, myself included, have done some string figures as children, usually Cat's Cradle, and I have to say I got as much fun out of this as Jesse. But Jesse had fun too--the string is brightly coloured and the string figures are good, strong simple shapes. It was days before she stopped showing off her "Cup and Saucer" to us!
Rating: 5
Summary: Great for entertaining my Grandaughter
Comment: When my grandaughter visits, she loves me to play cats cradle with her. Plus she has learned to do many of the string figures. It is a challenge and a fun accomplishment. We have many times misplaced the string and I end up buying the book again just for the string. Does anyone know where we can buy extra strings? I know we can use any string; but we like the nice colored one that comes with the book, and I was hoping that someone, somewhere would have these strings available.
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Title: String Games from Around the World by Anne Akers Johnson ISBN: 1570540403 Publisher: Klutz, Inc Pub. Date: June, 1996 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Hand Clap! "Miss Mary Mack" and 42 Other Hand Clapping Games for Kids by Sara Bernstein ISBN: 1558504265 Publisher: Adams Media Corporation Pub. Date: November, 1994 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: Chinese Jump Rope by Anne Akrs Johnson, Anne Akers Johnson, Mary Thelen, Sara Boore ISBN: 1570540985 Publisher: Klutz, Inc Pub. Date: April, 1997 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Cootie Catcher Book by The Editors of Klutz, Editors of Klutz Press, Klutz Press ISBN: 1570541310 Publisher: Klutz, Inc Pub. Date: April, 1998 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: Anna Banana: 101 Jump Rope Rhymes by Joanna Cole, Alan Tiegreen ISBN: 0688088090 Publisher: William Morrow & Co Paper Pub. Date: April, 1989 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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