Book 1 of 3 in Ready, Set, Write!
Ready! Lines & Letters
Little hands need practice before they can write. This book starts with the lines and curves that every letter is made of, moves on to simple shapes, then teaches letter formation for the capitals, one letter at a time.
Paperback $8.99, PDF €5.99
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Ready! Lines & Letters is a 66-page handwriting workbook for 3, 4 and 5 year olds in the preschool years, by Milo Wick. Paperback on Amazon, PDF on Etsy.
Every page has one thing on it. A child who has just picked up a pencil cannot choose where to begin, so the book chooses for them: a dot marks the start, numbered arrows show the direction, and the row fades from a solid model to dotted copies to an empty space, so the help falls away as the hand gets steady.
The strokes come first because letters are made of them. Straight down, across, around, and the curve that becomes C, G, O and S. By the time the alphabet starts, the hand has already drawn every shape it needs.
What is inside
- 16 pre-writing stroke pages and 4 path mazes
- 6 basic shapes to trace and draw
- A page for every capital letter, A to Z
- Review pages, free practice paper and a certificate
The pictures are made with an image generation tool, then checked one by one by us. How a book gets made.
Pages from the book
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Make it about your child
Your child's name in the title, a child who looks like them on the cover and in the pictures, and a page where they learn to write their own name. In English or Dutch, printed and posted to your home.
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Get the book
- Printed and sent by Amazon, from the store for your country.
- Reprinted or refunded if it arrives damaged or with a mistake that is ours.
- Lantern & Ladder, a press in Utrecht, KVK 42183707. Write to us and a person answers.
- Pictures made with an image generation tool, checked one by one by us.
Why a boy and a girl edition
Children like to find themselves in a book. So Books 1 and 2 come in two editions, one with Rudy and one with Sadie: pick the one your child will enjoy most.
Both teach exactly the same thing, in the same order, on the same pages. Only the child changes: on the cover, in some of the pictures and on the certificate at the end.
Book 3 has one edition, with Rudy and Sadie together.
Also as a PDF
The whole book as a file to print at home, both editions in one download from our Etsy shop.
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Free printable pages
Four pages from this book, ready to print at home on A4 or US Letter. Tell us where to send them.
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Questions before you buy
Which age is it for?
Ready! Lines & Letters is for ages 3 to 5. The bands on the three covers overlap on purpose: what matters is what the hand can already do, not the birthday. The series page says which book to start with.
Print or cursive?
Print, not cursive and not pre-cursive: no entry or exit strokes. Every model carries a start dot and numbered arrows in the Zaner-Bloser stroke order, the one most schools in the United States teach, and the order is the same in all three books.
Boy edition or girl edition?
The same book, page for page. Only the child changes: on the cover, in some of the pictures and on the certificate at the end. Pick the one your child will enjoy most.
Can the pages be done again?
The paperback is pencil on paper, once, which is how a workbook is meant to be used: 66 pages is a term of practice. The printable PDF is the same book as a file, and prints again as often as you like.
Are the pictures made with AI?
The pictures start in an image generation tool and are then checked one by one by us. The letters, the arrows and the tracing lines are set from a typeface designed for beginning readers, not generated.
Paperback or PDF?
The paperback is printed and sent by Amazon from the store for your country, 8.5 x 11 in, 66 pages. The PDF is the whole book from our Etsy shop, to print at home on A4 or US Letter paper.
In this series
- Ready! Lines & LettersYou are reading this one
- Set! Letters & NumbersAges 4 to 6
- Write! Words & Silly SentencesAges 5 to 6
