Guest Author - Lisa Shea

The Magic of Origami is a black and white, simple line drawing introduction to origami. It features the classics and has an entire setion for Christmas Tree ornaments.

There are clowns, Santa Claus, cranes, frogs, flowers, and more. There are a few rectangle shapes included, which do well for money folding.

The book is rather thick and rectangular, making it hard for the pages to stay open. You have to paperweight them down to work on anything. Also, with everything being black and white and drawn in, the images aren't as spectacular as some of the other books. You don't get the same inspiration looking through these pictures as you do elsewhere.

Still, it's a good general use craft book to have around if you don't have other books on origami, and might contian a few shapes (the holiday ones especially) not found elsewhere.

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