How to book for kids?

[Sonny321]

I'm working on a care package for a family. The parents afghans are finished, and now I'm working on little gifts for the children. For the boy I'm going to make Juggling balls and track down a how to Juggle book. FOr the Young girl I'll Make a stuffed animal of some sort but for the young teen girl( 13) I was thinking of making her a backpack( maybe beaded if I work up the nerve to try it) And adding a How to crochet book with a skein of yarn and a crochet hook or two. I'd like suggestions on good How to books that are simple with interesting and cool patterns to appeal to young teens. Any ideas?

[Alosha]

What a great idea! I found several books at Amazon, but it's hard to tell what they are like. "Kid's Craft - Crochet", "Kid's Crochet, Projects for kids of all ages", & "Crocheting (Kids can do it.)

Alosha

[diamond]

There's a great book called "I Can't Believe I'm Crocheting" you can get at Michaels and your LYS and there are several other books geared towards kids/teens but I can't recall their names off hand. Michael's also has a kit you can buy which has some hooks, an instruction book, and other basic needs for crocheting. I think it's called "Teach Yourself to Crochet" or something along that nature.

[Donna]

I like Cool Stuff: Teach Me to Crochet. I like the way they start out with chains and projects you can actually make with chains (rathr than doing just boring ol' chains) and work up from there, each step up having it's own project(s).