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Crazy Cursive

Nika
Dubrovsky
Drawings by Nika and Benjamin
PART 0: STROKE BY STROKE

CRAZY CURSIVE
BOOK 1: LETTER'S PARTS AND MONSTERS
Nika Dubrovsky
Illustrations by Nika Dubrovsky and
Benjamin Bush
Layout by Mikl Lukianov

Berlin, 2011
Version 0.1

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This is the first book in the "Crazy Cursive" series. Beginners

are usually asked to start the study of handwriting by
learning to form parts of letters. My child found this too
boring, so I tried to create something that would be fun and
"graceful" at the same time. Instead of pushing a lot of
repetition, I wanted to leave a lot of empty space, and let
children experience the simple, basic beauty of the individual
strokes that we use to form whole letters.

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