This book is not worth the money. It is short, bright, and attractive, supposedly geared to kids. However, there are no basic instructions, mostly just cute ideas of things you could do if you already knew calligraphy, and those ideas are not particularly unique. Examples, at best, show complex letter forms that they haven't shown you how to do, at worse they do not match the text. For example, they recommend "using two pencils" to draw double line letters, but then picture an outline letter form that could not have been made with two pencils. Instead, look at The Complete Book of Callligraphy, Lyon and Sullivan, which does what this purports to do, but fully and well.