Calligraphy

FOR KIDS

ELEANOR WINTERS

Sterling Publishing Co., Inc.

1166 Avenue of the Americas

New York, NY 10036

© 2004 by Eleanor Winters

ISBN 978-1-4549-3654-1

Winters, Eleanor.

Calligraphy for kids / Eleanor Winters.

p. cm.

Contents: Calligraphy vocabulary—Tools and materials—Getting ready to write—Getting to know your pen—Italic calligraphy, lowercase (minuscule) letters—Italic calligraphy, capital letters—Gothic calligraphy, lowercase (minuscule) letters—Gothic calligraphy, capital letters—A new pen position— Uncial calligraphy—Roman calligraphy, lowercase (minuscule) letters—Roman calligraphy, capital letters— Numbers and punctuation—Writing a quote or a poem—Border designs—One-of-a-kind greeting cards—Copy machine greeting cards—Signs—Party invitations.

ISBN 1-40270-664-2

1. Calligraphy—Juvenile literature. [1. Calligraphy.] I.Title.

Z43 .W748 2004

745.6’1

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Edited by Jeanette Green

Designed by Judy Morgan

Photos by Michael Hnatov Photography

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For Leendert, with all my love
comme d’habitude

Acknowledgments

Calligraphy for Kids is in many ways a collaborative effort that resulted from the advice, encouragement, suggestions, and criticism of many friends and colleagues. All of them helped make this book possible.

Topping the list are my senior and junior consultants, Julia Paterson and Sarah Turbow, and my calligraphic partner and pal, Carole Maurer. Their experience and expertise have aided me enormously in organizing the book and its point of view. I am equally grateful to Heather Quinlan for her good advice and abundant enthusiasm; to Bob Cooperman for his instant rewrite abilities; Joan Harmon for all those pages of guide lines; John Golden for midnight-hour computer rescue missions; and Isabelle, our lovely and very helpful young model.

Special thanks go to my husband Leendert van der Pool for everything, everyday; to the Kitchen Girls, Kathryn Sartori, Laurie Sayres, Kathy Wallace, and again Julia Paterson; and to Terry Moriber for intelligent advice, unending encouragement, and good cheer. Finally, I’d like to thank Nan DeLuca and Carrie Robbins for pointing me in the right direction at the very beginning of this endeavor.

Thank you all!