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Overview
Create a magical collection of origami animals, flowers, and people. “Nguyen’s designs have a distinctive look, and paper artists will enjoy tackling them.”—School Library Journal. “Complete advice for beginners... Projects [are] displayed in colorful, easily followed spreads.”—Booklist. “This book will give you many hours of pleasure and will appeal to children as well as adults.”—Creative Crafter.Editorials
School Library Journal
Gr 5-7-Using standard origami notation, Nguyen offers directions for 16 paper figures, including a ferocious-looking rattlesnake; a sinuous, spiky "Oriental" dragon; and a five-piece cowboy, hat, and bucking bronco assembly. Though the author opens with several introductory folds, these models are not for beginners. Many require pleats, tiny squash folds, and other challenging techniques, plus the ability to turn what are, after all, abstract forms into recognizable creatures by finding just the right angles and postures. Origami purists will be displeased to discover that most of these creations require scissors and glue; more problematic, some of the color photos show finished models that were folded differently, the same photo is used to illustrate two different basic folds, and some of the scissors work, such as cutting off the tips of the sand crab's legs, seems superfluous. Still, Nguyen's designs have a distinctive look, and intrepid paper artists will enjoy tackling them.-John Peters, New York Public Library Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.Book Details
Published
May 22, 2003
Publisher
Sterling
Pages
96
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9781402701177