Good, although kitsch
It's a good and detailed guide to an origami technique that's awesome and plenty of possibilities. And the models are somewhat easy to accomplish, although they require patience, time and a lot of hard and repetitive work to do, so it's aimed to fans of modular origami. I take one star off the book because the models, in general, display a "kitschness" peculiar to some oriental tastes (no offense intended here, please!), but once you master the tricks and the possible combinations in assembling the ONE AND ONLY module necessary to form the shapes, you can with little effort design your own models.
Also, I've already seen this book (or one pretty similar) in Japanese, or Chinese (sorry, really can't discern!), and the translation seems pretty good, so to say, it's intelligible and have no grammatical or semantical mistakes that I could notice so far. Overall a good buy if you are found of modular origami, and the price is very nice too!
Worth every penny and then some.
I bought this book a couple years ago. Used the Temari ball as a pattern to make ornaments. Made a basket, some cranes and now I am working on the Peacock.
All I had to do was take one crane to church and boom I had orders. I've sold enough cranes to pay for the book a dozen times.
And if you want to know if the book is clear enough for kids. I showed it to a lady at church. Her 9 year old daughter borrowed the book, made a baby swan and took first place in a regional art contest.
One of my favorite things to do is to keep a bowl of prefolded peices handy. I play with them like Legos and when my friends come over their kids spend hours "buidling" with them.
My only regret is that the author has not released even more books.
Wonderful book
I bought this book for my 14 year old son who has done origami for the past three years, he found the instructions very clear, and was delighted with both the variety of shapes that were given, and how easy it was to modify the shapes to create different designs.
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