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Beatrix Potter Classic Copywork is a downloadable black-and-white
e-book that provides copywork from Beatrix Potter. Homeschooling
Downunder has four books available in its copywork series, and Beatrix
Potter Classic Copywork is the first book in the series. Each
of the books is available in italics print, italics cursive, manuscript
print, and manuscript cursive. I received the manuscript print
version (recommended for ages 6-8) and the manuscript cursive version
(recommended for ages 7-10) to review.
The two versions I received are identical except for the font.
They contain four of Beatrix Potter's stories for copywork: "The
Story of Miss Moppet," "The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit," "Cecily
Parsley's Nursery Rhymes," and "Appley Dappley's Nursery Rhymes." The
stories are several pages long, and each page has at least one
sweet black-and-white illustration. The cursive version begins
with a light gray font for tracing, while the print version has
dotted letters for tracing. After a handful of pages like this,
the format changes to a blank set of lines in between each line
on the page so that the student is able to copy the words directly
below the model.
Beatrix Potter Classic Copywork is a fairly basic copywork
book. In the print edition, two words are missing at the end of
a sentence, and on another page there are no lines to copy the
last sentence on (these are correct in the cursive edition). I
hope the books are proofread again and the errors are fixed. However,
the layout of Beatrix Potter Classic Copywork is simple,
and it gets the job done. It's an economical choice since you can
print multiple copies (using only black ink) for your family. So
even with the errors, it's worth taking a look at Beatrix Potter
Classic Copywork.
Product review by Courtney Larson, The Old Schoolhouse® Magazine,
LLC, December 2010
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