"Joy of Scrapbooking" is great for the beginner scrapbooker, and even good for an advanced scrapbooker, who wants to look back at the basics. With an easy reading format, helpful hints, tips, and ideas, and a few pages of examples in the back, this book is incredibly helpful and useful and everything is in color! You must always keep this book by your scrapbooking work area! I recommend.