Lantern&Ladder

For schools and kinderopvang

Real pages to look at, a person who answers email, and an honest answer about whether these books fit what you are doing.

See the pages before you ask about price

There is no printable pack on this site. Real pages from each book are shown below and on the book's own page. If what you want is pages you can copy for a group, email and ask.

What a page looks like

A round friendly tractor with two big wheels and a puff of smoke from its chimney, drawn with extra thick black lines.
Farm and Garden, ages 3 to 6.
A page for the letter G. A large model letter with a start dot and numbered arrows, then rows of dotted letters on handwriting rules.
Ready! Lines & Letters, ages 3 to 5.
A review page matching capital letters to their small partners.
Set! Letters & Numbers, ages 4 to 6.
A write-your-own page with a word bank at the top and empty handwriting rules below.
Write! Words & Silly Sentences, ages 5 to 6.

Printable content

Pages you can copy are not sold or given away here. The pack behind the code in the back of each book is for the child who owns that book.

There is no school licence. If copyable pages for a whole group is the thing you actually need, say so, and say roughly how many children: that request is what would decide whether we make one.

What these books do, and what they do not

They do teach letter formation in a fixed order, with a start dot and numbered stroke arrows on every model, and rows that reduce support across the page. The letters are print, not cursive and not pre-cursive: no entry or exit strokes. The stroke order is the Zaner-Bloser order, the manuscript scheme widely taught in schools in the United States, and it is the same on every model in every book. Book 1 is pre-writing strokes and capital letters only, no lowercase. Book 2 is lowercase and numbers to 20. Book 3 is words and sentences.

They do not teach phonics, reading or Dutch spelling. They are a handwriting scheme, not a literacy scheme. The regular paperbacks are in English only; all three books are also in Dutch, as a printable PDF on A4, and Books 1 and 2 as a printed Dutch book with one child’s name and a child who looks like them, made to order through Etsy (see the personalised book). If your school teaches a joined or pre-cursive hand from the start, these books teach a different letter and will not fit.

For the youngest group, Little Lantern Coloring is the same age band drawn bigger: one picture to a page and lines thick enough for a chunky crayon held in a fist. The adult coloring books are not for a classroom and are not shown here.

Ages are a guide, not a rule. The bands on the covers are 3 to 5, 4 to 6 and 5 to 6. In a mixed group the useful question is whether a child can hold a pencil and copy a straight line, not how old they are.

Bulk orders

There is no trade portal and no minimum order, because we are two people. Email what you need and you get a real answer, usually the same week.

Tell us:

  • Which titles and which editions, and how many of each
  • Where they are going, and by when
  • What your finance office needs to see on an invoice

Getting in touch

Write to scholen@lanternladder.com. That address goes to a person, not a queue. If the question is about the teaching method rather than an order, milo@lanternladder.com is better.

We answer in English or Dutch.

Bulk order enquiry

The email opens with the three things we need in order to answer properly. No form, no account, no minimum order.

Start an email

Or write to scholen@lanternladder.com