Great Literature Copywork: Practice Cursive Handwriting with Excerpts from the Great Books (Classic Copywork: Cursive) Paperback – January 29, 2014

I have purchased so many of these for for my daughter and they are supposed to be for teens but they all look like they were created for elementary students. The learning cursive with Anne of Green gables is too easy and the letters are too big. My daughter enjoys a challenge and likes her cursive to resemble the actual letters written by people back in the day. This book fits the bill for everyday practice. It’s small like real handwriting, it’s challenging and has really good excerpts. We also use the Spencerian penmanship for more traditional writing.

I love this book. My daughter is getting great practice and I find myself tracing over her work (which is traced over the printed words) for practice myself. Since cursive is not included in many schools anymore I want my daughter to have that skill anyway. She's going into 6th grade and last year was the first year she had a teacher who told them they could write/practice cursive for class. I wish I had thought of looking for books like these years ago. My 4 year old will be getting these when he starts writing (especially since he's a lefty!). I will be looking for more of these when she finishes this one.

We LOVE these books! Upon first glance my sons were concerned the lines were too small but now that they have done a few they enjoy them. My son did find a mistake in one section. It was one of the plays and they labelled different ones the same thing. Besides that, we really enjoy this and plan on buying the other books in the series.

I was disappointed in how small the writing lines were. Very small font and depth of the lines

I bought this for my 12 year old son. He has done several cursive books, but this one is his favorite. The selections are perfect, the cursive script is very pretty (not blocky like some), and the perfect length. I'm giving 4 stars only because I wish the book had more writing pages. For the price, it is a rather thin book. That is my only complaint.

Handwriting is improving and she wants to read more great literature!

I've gotten lazy, and used printing instead of cursive for the last 50 years. I want to get back into the habit of using longhand, and practicing on literary quotes makes it more interesting than a boring drill.

I like the idea of this book and the literary selections. However, please be aware that the practice lines in this book are even more narrow than COLLEGE ruled notebook paper. That's why I only gave it 2 stars. I can't think of any situation where a person would be required to write that small. My daughter copies the selections into a separate notebook, which kind of defeats the purpose of a copybook... She also has noted several typos. I'm wondering where the editor was before this book went to print.