Picked up this book (the French version) at the Montreal store a few months ago and slowly working my way through some patterns. The explanations are nice, but you would think the patterns would be tech edited in a published book. I was going crazy with one of the patterns as I'm a beginner, and fortunately I had someone more experienced who could point out that the pattern did not match the chart. Lo and behold I just reached the body of the duck and I have the same problem again - extra single crochet in the chart missing from the pattern, plus symbols not matching the pattern. It's hard for me to recommend this book, at least for beginners who might not notice the problems.