Beading with Charms: Beautiful Jewelry, Simple Techniques (A Lark Jewelry Book) would be a good book for someone just starting to work with wire. The projects use mostly basic wire techniques such as making simple loops and wrapped loops to attach all kinds of beads and trinkets to earrings, necklaces, bracelets, and more. There are some beautiful designs using a variety of materials, including found objects, pearls, and glass beads.

For an intermediate to advanced wireworker, this book would be useful primarily as a source of inspiration. Don’t expect to learn any advanced techniques, but maybe one of the designers uses materials in a new way that could spark your creativity.

The best thing about this book, in my opinion, is that there are a *lot* of projects - more than most jewelry books - so there’s bound to be something that appeals to most jewelry designers. The weakness is that the projects are mostly beginner-level projects.