Needles at the ready for the latest book from talented knitting designer Sarah Keen, which will delight and inspire your cuddly toy creations. Perfect as a special gift for a child, animal lover or simply to add to your own personal collection, these farm animals are bursting with character. The projects range from a sweet little buzzing bee, busy clucking hen and a vibrantly coloured pheasant to a proud goose and plump turkey. There's plenty to choose from. All the animals have easy-to-follow patterns, and this book also features detailed techniques, abbreviations and knitting conversions allowing you to create with confidence. AUTHOR: Sarah Keen is passionate about knitting, finding it relaxing and therapeutic. She discovered her love of the craft at a very early age her mother taught her to knit when she was just four years old and by the age of nine she was making jackets and jumpers. Sarah now works as a freelance pattern designer and finds calculating rows and stitches challenging but fascinating. She is experienced in designing knitted toys for children and also enjoys writing patterns for charity. She has written many books for GMC Publications including 100 Little Knitted Projects, Knitted Wild Animals and Knitted Cars and Trucks.

Knitted Menagerie provides 30 easy-to-follow knitting patterns for an eclectic array of animals. Within the pages of this bright and fun book, you'll find 30 adorable animals to knit, ranging from sealife to birds, insects to mammals. You'll find everyone's favourites, including a lion, an elephant, blue whale, meerkats and a llama. The patterns vary in complexity, ensuring there's something for everyone. Complete beginners or more experienced knitters can be reassured by the comprehensive illustrated techniques section provided. Packed with fun and enticing photography that shows each of the projects from different angles, this book is sure to delight the knitter and the lucky receiver of these gorgeous, knitted creatures. AUTHOR: Sarah Keen works as a freelance pattern designer and finds calculating rows and stitches challenging, but fascinating. She is experienced in designing knitted toys for children and also enjoys writing patterns for charity. This is Sarah's tenth book for GMC Publications. Sarah lives in Ceredigion, Wales, UK. SELLING POINTS: Projects are safe, durable, and made from readily available yarn Suitable for beginners through to experienced knitters Plenty of bright, fun photographs of the animals throughout the book, including a dedicated gallery section 30 brand new patterns with favourite animals as well as the more unusual and exotic Latest knitting book from best-selling author Sarah Keen 50 photographs, 30 illustrations

Get ready to blast off on an intergalactic knitting mission to boldly create an array of cosmos-themed projects ready for any interplanetary adventure! Knitted Space is the latest title from Sarah Keen and incorporates 20 projects including an astronaut, space rocket, flying saucer and shooting star. As well as the projects, Knitted Space also includes a comprehensive techniques section which makes the book accessible to those new to knitting. The projects make ideal gifts for any space-loving child, providing hours of fun. AUTHOR: Sarah Keen works as a freelance pattern designer and finds calculating rows and stitches challenging, but fascinating. She is experienced in designing knitted toys for children and also enjoys writing patterns for charity. This is Sarah's tenth book for GMC Publications. Sarah lives in Ceredigion, Wales, UK.

All children love a farmyard so, they're bound to enjoy these lovely little knitted farmyard characters! You'll find all their favorite animals, from cows to hens to ponies, lambs and ducks. There are also the farmers and farm workers to knit, plus a tractor, farmhouse and accessories. All the characters can be played with on the large playmat, which is also included as a pattern. The 25 projects feature best-selling author Sarah Keen's popular and charming style. They're durable and washable, using readily available DK yarn. There's a comprehensive techniques section too, so beginners will be able to tackle the projects. They make wonderful gifts for little ones, and will provide many hours of fun and educational imaginative play.

From the Galapagos to the depths of Patagonia and up along the stark desert coast of Chile, Listening to Sea Lions empathic ethnography carries the reader directly into the heart of the ocean world of Latino coastal people. Sea lions are the fellow denizens in nature who share the perpetual changes and are seen as metaphoric selves. Meltzoff uses storytelling rather than explicit theory to help explain local struggles and survival strategies wrought by extreme El Nino events and shifting political climates. Embedded within the six multi-sited ethnographies are global themes in coastal communities, from boom-and-bust fisheries to the rivalries among fisheries, tourism, conservation interests. The overall picture is sea-change and impermanence as a local way of life by the ocean.

Live life in the knitted fast lane with these super-cool, super-sized knitted cars and trucks for children to enjoy. Wave goodbye to little metal vehicles being driven into furniture and painful feet from treading on small metal parts, and say hello to these wonderfully soft, squishy four wheelers. Complete with a knitted road playmat to drive them on and accessories such as traffic lights, cones and barriers to add to the fun, children will get hours and hours of playtime from these fabulous projects. Vehicles include a 4 x 4, London bus, fire engine, police car, bulldozer, racing car, London black cab, articulated truck, tractor, tanker, crane, ambulance, recycling truck, limousine, camper van, a car with a caravan and a car breakdown rescue vehicle.

Experience the thrill of seeing the "Big Five" by embarking on a safari of the knitted kind from the comfort of your armchair. Sarah Keen's latest book, Knitted Safari, is packed full of fabulous safari animals to knit, as well as a jeep to take you on your imaginary adventure of a lifetime. Inside you will find everything you need to know to knit creatures that will entertain children for hours! 25 safari animals and a jeep to knit includes a techniques section suitable for notice knitters includes projects to make elephants, lions, a rhino, leopard, buffalo, flamingos, chimps, a zebra, hippos and anteater.