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Trying to decide between the Italic book D or cheerful cursive? Any thoughts? From what I understand these r completely two different styles of cursive handwriting? Any pros and cons to each?

The only pro/con I can think of is that the History-Drawing Books that are used throughout the guides have dictation passages that are in traditional cursive. Personally, I like the look of italics but went with the Cheerful Cursive book because I didn't want to confuse my children when it came to reading and re-writing traditional cursive.

Ultimately, I have no regrets.

We didn't do the Italics book, but loved Cheerful Cursive. It was a fun book that my dc looked forward to doing everyday. One of the things that I really liked about it was that it helped them learn how to read cursive (various types) not just write it.

I agree, my daughter loved Cheerful Cursive, the writing of it was fun and the way it taught cursive was good and pretty easy.

I did some of the earlier Italic books and they are not nearly as fun. Plus as others mentioned, it is a different approach to cursive, one I personally don't like as well.

I think Cheerful cursive is great. I have a child that struggles a little bit still with fine motor but he is really liking the cheerful cursive.

Wow, it looks like cheerful cursive it is. Thank u ladies!