This is a great DIY origami book! I read through the whole book at first and then tried my hand at folding a tea bag. It worked in one go! The instructions are very clear.

I love how there's also suggestions like using fabric for an origami purse or using non-toxic materials so you can actually use the tea bag you folded for tea. 

The style of this book is truely kawaii, very bright and colourful. Really cheers me up. The last few look really hard so I guess I'll have to practice a lot!

I've been folding origami models for over 45 years so when I saw this book, I was chomping at the bit to get my hands on it and I certainly wasn't disappointed.  There are some great models to fold including a tea bag, a Bento box, a flower bowl, a cactus, a mini-trash bin (a YouTube favourite) etc.  A few of these models I've seen before but the majority are originals.  There is a star rating against each model, indicating how difficult the model is to fold, i.e. one star indicates the easiest models to fold, whilst 5 star models are quite complex.  Instructions are given step-by-step and are easy to follow.  The photos and pictures are extremely clear and serve to enhance the book.  There are some cute little emoji style faces with speech bubble captions on many pages.  There are pictures of every finished model, however unusually, rather than being at the start or end of each set of instructions, the finished model appears in the middle of several pages of instructions for it.  I certainly didn't dislike this layout or find it off-putting in any way, I simple mention is as it's rather unusual. I got stuck into folding some of these models straight away, creating several tea-bags, a cactus, a masu box, a mini trash bin etc.  All were straightforward to do, when following the instructions given. 

So the reason for four rather than five stars?  Origami is the Japanese art of paper-folding.  That is to use a single (or more) sheet of paper, often square but it may be other shapes too, and then folding it into a recognisable model without using glue, scissors, sticky tape or any other tool or decoration.  Some of the models in this book require the use of scissors, ie all of the woven origami  of which there are several, as does  the shrimp nigiri box.  Other models require glue, i.e. the ice cream and sushi roll boxes.. The tea bag requires a piece of string with a small cut out paper heart or similar to make it recognisable.  There is a suggestion that the stationery box model  should be made with thick paper or card rather than regular origami paper.  All of these things take away from pure origami.  Not a problem for many but for the origamists who are 'purists', these models are likely to be 'no-go' areas.  I personally would never make an origami model that requires the use of scissors or glue in any way. 

Overall then, this book is full of fun and easy to fold original models with an overload of cuteness thrown in for good measure.  However, if like me, you're a origami 'purist', then many of these models unfortunately will be out of bounds.

Many thanks to Netgalley for a copy of this ARC for which I have given my voluntary and unbiased review.

This is the first book about origami that I read and understand, so many books I have read before without the minimal idea which way to bend the paper, but not this one, this one makes the bending in different colors and that changes everything, plus the results are really cute (kawaii).

Questo é il primo libro sugli origami in cui finalmente capisco da che parte piegare la carta, perché le due piegature sono indicate in colori diversi (finalmente) e questo porta anche a dei risultati molto carini (kawaii).

THANKS NETGALLEY FOR THE PREVIEW!