I bought this as a girl in elementary school, and while many of the projects look easy enough and fun to do, I didn't have most of the materials and thus couldn't try many of them. All the styles shown are, appropriately, American and girly. If you have wooden dowels, rickrack ribbon, a collection of Raggedy Ann dolls, and plain lampshades lying around, then go ahead and let this book be you muse. ( )

This book is loaded with great ideas for cleaning and organizing rooms. Though it would be hard to do a total makeover with it, the book has ideas for painting furniture, dressing bed coverings, and making holders for just about every kind of item. These ideas are cute and cover a variety of themes, rather than one specific style, but an adult could help a girl redo her entire room. ( )