Annabelle lives in a black-and-white world, where everything is drab. So when she finds a box filled with yarn of every color, she makes a sweater for herself, for her dog, her classmates, even for houses and cars. Soon an evil archduke with a sinister mustache “who was very fond of clothes” hears about the magic box of never-ending yarn, and he wants it for his own. This amusing, magical story celebrates a child’s generosity, ingenuity and her ability to change the world around her.
In Extra Yarn, magic yarn connects adults to children, animals to humans, and a community to its town. Annabelle's yarn does not end when she uses it to knit for everyone around her, symbolizing endless giving to others. Like it, a candle burning bright accompanies us throughout the Jewish ...
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In Extra Yarn, magic yarn connects adults to children, animals to humans, and a community to its town.
Annabelle's yarn does not end when she uses it to knit for everyone around her, symbolizing endless giving to others. Like it, a candle burning bright accompanies us throughout the Jewish calendar as an expression of human giving. Our Rabbis have likened one person's giving to another to infinite light in the following excerpt:
As a person who lights one candle from another,
and the second burns while the first is not diminished. [Bamidbar Rabbah, 13]
