Best Fountain Pen for Children?

[maxh]

I don't know if the Lamy ABC is good (though from what I hear it is), but you wouldn't have to import it. It's on Jetpens.

[JefferyS]

Whew! Old thread! If a child is going to destroy a FP, let it be a Pilot Varsity. $2 is less than a cup of bad coffee. You can write a novel with Pilot Varsity fountain pens. My Duluth fully evolved briefcase has 4 Pilot Varsity FP in it.

[pgcauk]

I have taught quite a while in Waldorf Schools. Generally its all color pencils througg third grade (9ish) but lots of "form-drawing" = penmanship exercises. Grade four I like to have the students cut their own quills and make their own ink (walnuts are abundant in the local mountains) which makes a good stinky, mess! If you haven't written with a quill, you really should, they are the most flexible and sensitive of pens, and if you don't like the nib, just use your "pen-knife" (every gentleman carries one!) to trim it to suit. After this they have earned their Greenfields - which are incredible pens for the money (and can be fitted with a variety of calligraphy nibs in later years).

Hmmm, fifth grade we study the development of writing through cuneiform (the first envelopes, all made of clay!), hieroglyphics and the beautiful Greek alphabet, sixth grade we are ready to move on to Roman and Medieval alphabets and introduce itslic nibs.

The Lamy ABC looks similar and well thought through, but I can vouch from experience that the Greenfield is a well made and allows for development through the years.