Italics: Beautiful Handwriting for Children is a complete, thoughtfully sequenced penmanship program based on Charlotte Mason’s guidance for teaching beautiful, legible handwriting through brief and attentive lessons.
Created by educator and author Penny Gardner, the program begins with basic italic letter forms and progresses naturally into cursive italic. Because the printed and cursive forms are closely related, children can make the transition to joined handwriting without learning an entirely different alphabet.
Inside you will find:
24 carefully sequenced lessons
Instruction in both basic and cursive italic handwriting
Guided practice in letter formation and joining
More than 80 quotations from Scripture and literature
Meaningful copywork rather than repetitive drills
Help for beginners as well as older students who struggle with handwriting
A complete program designed for use across the elementary years
This 102-page, coil-bound workbook lies flat for comfortable writing. Its uncluttered pages and clear handwritten models make it especially well suited to short, consistent Charlotte Mason–style lessons.
Beautiful, practical, and economical, Italics gives children the tools to develop handwriting that is both graceful and distinctly their own.
