Can anyone id these needle? they look nice!
It's these needles that are with the purple aran yarn:

http://www.knittinghelp.com/apps/php/metro/www/del/ai.php?filename=sweetgumbanner.3.475x100.jpg&contenttype=jpeg

Hard to say since it's an ad for a book. Maybe it will say in the story.

There's so much photoshopping/retouching these days that you never know. But they look brightly colored and plastic and I would bet on Pony Pearls.