My Miniature Library: 30 Tiny Books to Make, Read and Treasure Novelty Book – October 17, 2017

I recently got hooked on making tiny books. After completing a kit for a tiny library, I wanted to explore learning to make my own little books, both from templates found online and projects like this one, where you have the pieces printed and you cut them out and assemble them.This kit has 30 tiny books. You cut out the pages and fold and glue them, then cut out the covers and glue the pages inside. It isn't difficult and the instructions are very good. The kit comes with a little cardboard bookcase you pop out and put together. I glued the shelves into mine because they didn't stay by themselves.Highly recommended to use a stylus to score the pages before folding. This was something I learned when I was researching making tiny books and it is much easier to fold the pages after scoring rather than trying to fold them unscored. The book comes out looking better. Also, I used a glue stick for gluing the pages, and E-6000 to glue the spine into the cover.I love the colors and high quality paper in this kit.If making these books with children, I'd recommend the parent do the cutting and the kids do the rest, unless the kids have really good fine motor skills. You can either cut out the pages and covers with scissors or with an Exacto knife.Overall, a very fun project and you have lots of tiny books to enjoy once you're done!

What a fun product! I've actually had it for a while ago, and just do a few at a time if I need to escape from the world. There's something so soothing about the cutting and folding. The attention to detail in the illustrations and designs are wonderful, the storybooks are actually mini versions of real books, not blank like you find in other kits. There is a great variety, from fairy tales, to botany, to a beautifully colored atlas. My favorites are the ones you can write and illustrate yourself. I let my small children help, either writing it themselves or letting them create a simple story that I fill in. We had the best time cutting and pasting bits from magazines for the "Tiny Treasures" book.There are a few cons. They are a little too big to look in scale for my daughter's dollhouse, so if you are going to incorporate them into another miniature display make sure you check the measurements. The cardboard bookcase doesn't stay together too well and looks cheap compared to the books . These things aside I still give it 5 stars for anyone who loves immersing themselves in miniature worlds.

This is a fun project for miniature lovers and book lovers. The outside box is used to create a miniature "room", with bookcase and miniature books. The entire rest of the set (other than outside box), consists of card stock paper printed with covers of books and regular paper printed with the inside pages of the books. All the tiny book pages and covers must be cut out and glued together to create the mini books. The books look very realistic and have full, shortened stories in them. This is a wonderful, although time-consuming craft. I recommend this product. Please mark if you find my review helpful. Thank you so much!

This is hands down one of the best crafts I have ever purchased for my daughter, and I have even loved assembling it with her! She is 7 and, as long as your child can be trusted with scissors/paper-cutter and a glue stick, they could assemble it on their own. But, I love it so much I have been helping. The books are actually readable print size (not too small), the illustrations are beautiful and I love the reinforcement of the importance of books that this brings with it. The only slightly negative item that I can see is that the bookshelf isn't the most sturdy thing, and it will probably wear out easily if you purchase this for a younger child who isn't careful. Other than that, it's wonderful and if I could give it 6 out of 5 stars, I would!!

The decorative box that is intended to be the background for the finished case was slightly crushed. Not sure why a small light box would be sent in a bag. Other than that, the product is cute.

I'm making the books for a 5-year-old, a few at a time, and find it fun and relaxing -- so long as the kitties are elsewhere.A few tips:-- Purchase a "bone" folder/scorer to make sharp, accurate folds. In my experience, folders made of melamine or another non-animal substance work fine.-- Resist the urge to stack two or more pages and cut at once. If you make one boo-boo, you'll wreck more than one book.-- Cut all strips in advance of any assembly. That, plus the covers, took me about 90 minutes. Arrange book titles in alphabetical order, like so: loose book cover, two loose text strips. Repeat. Secure the whole stack with a binder clip. This way you can dive into the set when you have a few moments and not go nuts trying to find which strips go with which covers.-- A glue stick is what you want. Not bottled glue.-- Cats are incapable of behaving like good little buddies during the cutting or assembly process. Paper strips! Glue! Ooooh! The miniature-book scene is simply too bloody much overload.

Very good quality and assortment of books.

my daughter loves this. The books are cute and the make your own ones have fun topics. Assembly is a bit tedious, but it’s a very unique set.